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

AUCTION 10 | Tuesday, June 27th, 2000 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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ZARZA, SAMUEL

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

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch. Signed on title-page Jacob Baruch Hakohen Vital. ff. 130. Signed at end by censors including Giovanni Dominico Carretto, ex-library with stamp on title. Modern 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: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $600

14th-century Spanish philosopher and 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.