Mekor Chaim [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 46 | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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ZARZA, SAMUEL

Mekor Chaim [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch]

FIRST EDITION. Owner’s signature on title page: Binyamin b. Hirsch Niederhofheim. ff. 130. Stained in places, f. 125 repaired affecting text, slight lower marginal tear on f. 126. Modern half calf. Sm. folio Vinograd, Mantua 63 (noting the existence of typographic variances); Adams S-241

Mantua: Meir b. Ephraim of Padua & Partner 1559

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $400

This 14th-century Spanish philosopher resident of Valencia, recounts in the introduction of the present work the suffering of the Jews of Castille as a result of the civil-war between Dom Pedro, Duke of Coimbra and his brother Henry the Navigator. In Toledo alone, 10,000 Jews are said to have lost their lives.