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Chidah.

Auction 53 · Lot 213

Chidah.

Estimate
$1,000–$1,200
Hammer price
Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

SAMUEL ZANVIL BEN BINYAMIN WOLF OF WORMS.

Place

n.p.

Publication

(1729)

Description

Printed broadside. Text within typographic borders. Handwitten marginalia adding one word, likely in the hand of the Author.

summary

Six paragraph poetic riddle commencing with the words "Mi zoth hanishkafa lemaalah min hasafah." Each line ending in the suffix "Ta" - as per the Shevu’os Akdamoth hymn. The poem as a whole, forms an acrostic of the author's name. Bibliographically unrecorded.
Mounted, small marginal repair. Sm. folio
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