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

AUCTION 9 | Tuesday, March 28th, 2000 at 1:00

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Lot 341

ZARZA, SAMUEL

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

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch ff. 130. Stained in places, scattered marginal worming. Signed at end by censors. Modern half- calf.Sm. folio Vinograd, Mantua 63 (noting the existence of typographic variances); Adams S-241

Mantua: Meir b. Ephraim of Padua & Jakob b. Naphtali Hakohen of Gazolo 1559

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $700

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