David Franco Mendes. “Ben ish peneh eilai be-tuv chinecha” [Epithalamium or Wedding Riddle]

AUCTION 36 | Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books & Manuscripts

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Lot 235

(DUTCH JUDAICA)

David Franco Mendes. “Ben ish peneh eilai be-tuv chinecha” [Epithalamium or Wedding Riddle]

Hebrew manuscript on single paper leaf. Finely penned illustration relating to Hebrew riddle in square characters provided with nikud (vowel points). Poem in double columns Folds (repaired on verso). 6 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches

(Holland): 18th Century

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,400

Depicts a contemporary Dutchman, wearing a peruque, holding hat in hand, with the anomaly that at the waist his body is severed in two. See Dan Pagis, Al Sod Hatum: Le-toldoth ha-chidah ha-Ivrith be-Italia u-be-Holland (1986), p.250