Samuel Zanvil ben Benjamin of Worms. Chidah Shel Harav R. Zanvil MiVermeisa [a Torah-based riddle]

AUCTION 70 | Thursday, September 22nd, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autographed Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Samuel Zanvil ben Benjamin of Worms. Chidah Shel Harav R. Zanvil MiVermeisa [a Torah-based riddle]

Single printed page, set within typographic borders. One word added in manuscript (likely in the hand of the author). Laid down. Sm. folio.

n.p.: (1669)

Est: $800 - $1,200

<<Bibliographically entirely unrecorded. >> Six paragraph poetic riddle commencing with the words “Mi zoth hanishkafa lema’alah min hasafah.” Each line ending in the suffix “Ta” - as per the Shevu’oth Akdamoth hymn. The poem as a whole, forms an acrostic of the author’s name.