Chibur Yaffe Mehayeshu’a [fables and parables]

AUCTION 8 | Tuesday, November 16th, 1999 at 1:00

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Lot 489

NISSIM BEN JACOB OF KAIROUAN

Chibur Yaffe Mehayeshu’a [fables and parables]

Second edition. Title within a typographical border ff. 40. Lightly browned. Later brown morocco boards, gilt-stamped on spine, a.e.g. Small 8vo Vinograd, Amsterdam 1591

Amsterdam: Hertz Levi Rophe and son-in-law 1746

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $250

One of the outstanding leaders of North African Jewry, who flourished in the first half of the eleventh century. This collection of folk-tales taken from early sources was designed to strengthen belief and faith, it is dedicated to the author’s father-in-law to console him in his mourning. It is probably the first prose storybook in medieval Hebrew literature and paved the way for Hebrew bellestristic literature as a literary genre. See M. Gaster, The Exampla of the Rabbis (1968); EJ, XII cols.1183-4