Mekor Chaim [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch]
AUCTION 24 |
Tuesday, June 29th,
2004 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg
Lot 213
ZARZA, SAMUEL
Mekor Chaim [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch]
Mantua: Meir b. Ephraim of Padua & Jakob b. Naphtali Hakohen of Gazolo 1559
Est: $400 - $600
PRICE REALIZED $700
This 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. In his afterword, the author states that he included an exposition of most of the Moreh Nevuchim as in his generation few really understood Maimonides’ thought process