[i.e. Benedictus le Puncteur(?)]. Mishlei Shu’alim [“Fox Fables”-Hebrew version of Aesop’s Fables]

AUCTION 12 | Tuesday, March 13th, 2001 at 1:00

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

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BERACHIAH BEN NATRONAI HANAKDAN

[i.e. Benedictus le Puncteur(?)]. Mishlei Shu’alim [“Fox Fables”-Hebrew version of Aesop’s Fables]

With engraved frontispiece of the Animal Kingdom. Title in red and black ink. Latin and Hebrew on facing pages. pp.(18),436 (mispaginated). Browned, trace wormed on last few leaves. Modern morroco boards. 12mo Vinograd, Prague 443

Prague: University Press 1661

Est: $600 - $900

Collection of fables synthesizing the European Aesopian tradition with animals who converse in a Biblical Hebrew interspersed with Talmudic quotations.