(Author of Kol Mussar, 1679-1727). Autograph signed poetic sonnet. Shirah Chadasha Shibchu Yisra’elim [against an apostate who embraced Christianity].
AUCTION 58 |
Thursday, May 02nd,
2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters
Lot 377
MODON, SAMSON COHEN.
(Author of Kol Mussar, 1679-1727). Autograph signed poetic sonnet. Shirah Chadasha Shibchu Yisra’elim [against an apostate who embraced Christianity].
(Mantua): circa 1700
Est: $500 - $700
Cecil Roth gives high marks to the poetic achievement of Modon, “renewer of the Hebrew sonnet, who won golden opinions when he was sent on a congratulatory mission to the Emperor Charles VI.” His Kol Mussar (Mantua, 1725) contains fifty similar types of sonnets (poems of fourteen lines). See C. Roth, The History of the Jews of Italy (1946), p. 400; D. Bregman & A. Brener. The Emergence of the Hebrew Sonnet, in: Prooftexts. Vol. 11, no. 3 (1991), pp. 231-39.