Proverbs (Mishlei). With commentary Kav VeNaki by David ben Solomon Ibn Yachya

AUCTION 26 | Monday, November 22nd, 2004 at 1:00

Exceptional Printed Books, Sixty-Five Hebrew Incunabula: The Elkan Nathan Adler-Wineman Family Collection

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Lot 61

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Proverbs (Mishlei). With commentary Kav VeNaki by David ben Solomon Ibn Yachya

FIRST EDITION OF COMMENTARY. Text in large square print with nekudoth and accents. Commentary in fine Spanish cursive characters ff.19 (of 62). Commences with Chapter VI. Many leaves repaired, some loss. First leaf in facsimile. Modern vellum-backed patterned boards. Folio Vinograd Lisbon 2 (apparently did not see a copy and does not provide a collation); Goff 35; Goldstein 96 (lists only one copy in the Brtish Isles in Cambridge University which according to Offenberg is also incomplete); Marx 19; Tishby 94; Wineman Cat. 61; Offenberg 44 (lists only five complete copies and five fragmentary) - Not in JNUL

Lisbon: Eliezer (Toledano) (1492)

Est: $10,000 - $15,000

PRICE REALIZED $20,000

The author (ca. 1440-1524) served as the Rabbi of Lisbon. However, as a result of his efforts on behalf of his fellow Spanish refugees in Portugal, he was denounced to the Portuguese king as a traitor. Ibn Yachya succeeded to escape to Naples, but the French, the new rulers of Naples, stripped him of his possessions and exiled him to Corfu. He finally settled in Constantinople where he published some of his other halachic and grammatical works (Hilchoth Treifoth and Leshon Lemudim)