Mekor Chaim [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch].

Auction 95 | Thursday, November 11th, 2021 at 11:00am
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinic Letters, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 286
ZARZA, SAMUEL.

Mekor Chaim [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch].

<<First Edition.>> ff. 130. Closely shaved, few stains, trace wormed. Modern silver-tooled red morocco. Folio. Vinograd, Mantua 63 (notes typographic variances).

Mantua: Meir ben Ephraim of Padua & Partner 1559

Est: $700 - $1,000
PRICE REALIZED $600
The author, a 14th-century Spanish philosopher resident of Valencia, recounts in the introduction of the present work the suffering of the Jews of Castille as a result of the civil-war between Dom Pedro, Duke of Coimbra and his brother Henry the Navigator. In Toledo alone, 10,000 Jews are said to have lost their lives. In his afterword, the author states he included an exposition of most of Moreh Nevuchim as few of his generation fully comprehended Maimonides’ thought process. This copy with the discussion (f.21) on Laban’s idols, surprisingly left entirely uncensored.