Even Bochan [ethics in the form of satire]. Appended: Demuth Kisei Shlomo HaMelech [legend of King Solomon's throne]
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2010 at 1:00
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Lot 148
KALONYMOS BEN KALONYMOS OF ARLES.
Even Bochan [ethics in the form of satire]. Appended: Demuth Kisei Shlomo HaMelech [legend of King Solomon's throne]
Venice: Cornelio Adel-Kind [i.e. Daniel Bomberg] 1546
Est: $300 - $500
PRICE REALIZED $650
The Provencal satirist Kalonymos of Arles (1287-1337) pokes fun at the human condition, at aspiring patricians who claim bogus pedigrees, self-proclaimed savants and pious frauds. Also here are historical references to the first expulsion from France in 1306, and to the massacres of 1320-1321. See I. Davidson, Parody in Jewish Literature (1907), pp. 28-29; M. Waxman, A History of Jewish Literature (1933), Vol. II, pp.608-611; EJ, Vol. X, col. 721.
Bomberg issued this edition together with Ibn Gabirol's Mivchar Peninim, which is why the foliation begins with f.57.