Tzok Ha’Itim [“Sufferings of the Times”]
AUCTION 51 |
Thursday, June 23rd,
2011 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II
Lot 251
(MEIR BEN SAMUEL OF SCHEBRESHIN)
Tzok Ha’Itim [“Sufferings of the Times”]
Venice: Vendramin 1656
Est: $1,200 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,200
A contemporary rhymed account of the Chmielnicki massacres (1648-49) written in Cracow during the summer of 1650. The author personally witnessed the attacks and collected many accounts from refugees shortly after. Though structured in the same style as accounts of the First Crusades, the author is credited with a higher degree of historical accuracy than other 17th-century chroniclers - given his proximity to the events. See EJ, XI col. 1256