Sepher Tziyoni [homilies on the Pentateuch]

Estimate

$1,000–$1,500

Hammer price

$8,500

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

author

MENACHEM TZIYONI BEN MEIR OF SPEYER

printer

Vicenzo Conti

Place

Cremona

Publication

1559

Description

FIRST EDITION. Individual title letters historiated

references

Vinograd, Cremona 28; Mehlman 679; Benayahu, Cremona 23; Adams M-1248

summary

Upon issue, this entire edition of one thousand copies of the Tziyoni was seized and destroyed by the Dominican Friars of Cremona zealously seeking to enforce Pope Paul IV’s Index of that year. Despite Pope Paul IV’s Bull “In Coena Dominis,” a bare handful of copies survived. See D. Amram, the Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy (1963) pp.310-15. Concerning the typographical variants between the first and second editions (1560), see M. Benayahu, Ha’dephus Ha’ivri Be’cremona (1971) pp.79-83 (illustrated)

ff. 116. Lightly browned and stained in places. Modern morocco-backed boards. Sm. 4to

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