Johannes Andreas. Iggereth Sheluhah...Epistola paraenetica, ad congregationem Iudaeorum eorum qui provinciam incolunt
AUCTION 31 |
Tuesday, December 13th,
2005 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew and Other Printed Books
Lot 129
(FRENCH JUDAICA)
Johannes Andreas. Iggereth Sheluhah...Epistola paraenetica, ad congregationem Iudaeorum eorum qui provinciam incolunt
Paris: Martin Le Juene 1552
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
PRICE REALIZED $65,000
THE EARLIEST HEBREW ANIT-SEMITIC WORK PRINTED IN FRANCE.
Extremly rare edition of a missionary letter in Hebrew to the Jews of Avignon ("la ville des vignes") by Johannes Andreas (Juan Andres) of Xativa. “A convert to Christianity in the sixteenth century; his Jewish name is unknown. In his conversionist zeal he addressed a letter to the Jewish congregations of southern France, summoning them to accept Christianity (Paris, 1552). His works, originally written in Spanish, were translated into Italian...and frequently reprinted” (Meyer Keyserling in JE)