Me’ametz Ko’ach [sermons and eulogies]
AUCTION 41 |
Thursday, September 18th,
2008 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art
Lot 5
ALMOSNINO, MOSES
Me’ametz Ko’ach [sermons and eulogies]
Venice: Asher Parenzo for Giovanni di Gara 1588
Est: $400 - $600
PRICE REALIZED $450
Me’ametz Ko’ach contains twenty-eight - (thus Ko'ach, the numerical Hebrew equivelant of 28) - sermons by this celebrated preacher of the Neveh Shalom Congregation and an important communal leader of the Salonika Jewish community. Almosnino draws upon a broad repertoire of medieval interpreters: Maimonides, Nachmanides, R. David Kimchi, ibn Shuaib, et al. See EJ, Vol. II, cols. 667-71.
Born in Salonika, Moses ben Baruch Almosnino (c. 1515-c. 1580), hailed from a distinguished Spanish Jewish family originally from the town of Jaca inAragon. He was renowned for his knowledge of rabbinical matters and for his scholarship in the sciences, particularly natural physics and astronomy.