Sepher Tziyoni [homilies on the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 11 | Tuesday, November 28th, 2000 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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MENACHEM TZIYONI BEN MEIR OF SPEYER

Sepher Tziyoni [homilies on the Pentateuch]

FIRST EDITION. Individual title letters historiated ff. 116. Lightly browned and stained in places. Modern morocco-backed boards. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Cremona 28; Mehlman 679; Benayahu, Cremona 23; Adams M-1248

Cremona: Vicenzo Conti 1559

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $8,500

Upon issue, this entire edition of one thousand copies of the Tziyoni was seized and destroyed by the Dominican Friars of Cremona zealously seeking to enforce Pope Paul IV’s Index of that year. Despite Pope Paul IV’s Bull “In Coena Dominis,” a bare handful of copies survived. See D. Amram, the Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy (1963) pp.310-15. Concerning the typographical variants between the first and second editions (1560), see M. Benayahu, Ha’dephus Ha’ivri Be’cremona (1971) pp.79-83 (illustrated)