Chibur Yaffe Mehayeshu’a [fables and parables]

Estimate

$300–$500

Hammer price

$250

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author

NISSIM BEN JACOB OF KAIROUAN

printer

Hertz Levi Rophe and son-in-law

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1746

Description

Second edition. Title within a typographical border

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1591

summary

One of the outstanding leaders of North African Jewry, who flourished in the first half of the eleventh century. This collection of folk-tales taken from early sources was designed to strengthen belief and faith, it is dedicated to the author’s father-in-law to console him in his mourning. It is probably the first prose storybook in medieval Hebrew literature and paved the way for Hebrew bellestristic literature as a literary genre. See M. Gaster, The Exampla of the Rabbis (1968); EJ, XII cols.1183-4

ff. 40. Lightly browned. Later brown morocco boards, gilt-stamped on spine, a.e.g. Small 8vo

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