Tzok Ha’Itim [“Sufferings of the Times”]

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art

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Lot 269

(MEIR BEN SAMUEL OF SCHEBRESHIN)

Tzok Ha’Itim [“Sufferings of the Times”]

Plagiarized edition, with the publisher, Joshua Ben David of Lvov purporting to be the author. ff. 11. Previous owners’ stamps and inscription on title. 19th-century calf. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 1323; Mehlman 1613.

Venice: Vendramin 1656

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,200

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 first-person testimonies 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.