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

AUCTION 14 | Tuesday, November 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). Lightly browned, otherwise a good copy. Contemporary boards incorporating 16th century manuscript music-score, rubbed, later endpapers. 12mo Vinograd, Prague 443

Prague: University Press 1661

Est: $1,000 - $1,200

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