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

AUCTION 54 | Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 at 1:00

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ZARZA, SAMUEL.

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

<<FIRST EDITION.>> ff. 130. Lightly stained, previous owners’ stamp on title excised, manuscript notes on front flyleaf in a late Ashkenazic hand in pencil noting two interesting passages. Later calf, rubbed. Sm. folio. Vinograd, Mantua 63 (noting the existence of typographic variances); Adams S-241.

Mantua: Meir b. Ephraim of Padua & Jakob b. Naphtali Hakohen of Gazolo 1559

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $600

The author, a 14th-century Spanish philosopher resident in 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.