Nora Tehiloth [commentary to the Book of Psalms]

AUCTION 30 | Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 at 1:00

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Lot 304

SHUA’IB, JOEL IBN

Nora Tehiloth [commentary to the Book of Psalms]

FIRST EDITION. Four parts bound in one volume. Florets as headpieces and tailpieces I: ff. 203, (1) - lacking 10 leaves? (Mehlman calls for ff. 210, 4). II: ff. 211-322, (2). ff. 243-250, 303-4 misbound. Stained and wormed. Title and first 5 leaves, f.124 and ff. 201-203 taped. Modern blind-tooled calf. 4to Vinograd, Salonika 85; Mehlman 681; Adams I-18 (incomplete); St. Cat. Bodl. no.5838.3 (incomplete)

Salonika: Joseph Ya’avetz 1568-9

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

Seldom found complete. The second volume was issued in a differing format, no doubt necessitated by difficulties in obtaining paper. Joel ibn Shua’ib, an inhabitant of the Navarre region of Spain, was a famed preacher. Besides the present Nora Tehiloth on Psalms, his commentary on Lamentations was published (Salonika, 1521), as well as a collection of his Sabbath sermons under the title Olath Shabbath (Venice, 1577). Nora Tehiloth is scathingly critical of the Spanish Marranos, whom the author views as apostates. See B. Netanyahu, The Marranos of Spain (1966) p. 930; EJ, Vol. VIII, col. 1201