Mivchar Hapeninim [“Choice of Pearls”- ethics]

AUCTION 47 | Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 1:00

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

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Lot 151

IBN GABIROL, SOLOMON

Mivchar Hapeninim [“Choice of Pearls”- ethics]

Second Edition. Opening words within elaborate woodcut border ff. 40. Previous owners' marks, slight staining, scattered marginalia in an Ashkenazic hand. Modern calf. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Venice 271; Habermann, Bomberg 183

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1546

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $800

The literary output of ibn Gabirol was immense. On the authenticity of ibn Gabirol’s authorship of the Mivchar Hapeninim, see A. Marx, Gabirol’s Authorship of the Choice of Pearls and the Two Versions of Joseph Kimchi’s Shekel Hakodesh, in: Studies in Books and Booklore (1944) pp. 9-25