Sepher Machberoth Immanuel [poetry]

Estimate

$3,000–$4,000

Hammer price

Not recorded

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author

IMMANUEL BEN SOLOMON OF ROME.

printer

Eliezer ben Gershom Soncino

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1535

Description

Second edition. Title within woodcut architectural arch-form border.

references

Vinograd, Const. 153; Yaari, Const. 119; Adams I-53

summary

Immanuel of Rome (c.1261-1368), a contemporary of Dante’s, known in Italian as Manoello Giudeo, modeled his literary work on the classic Sephardic poets - Solomon ibn Gabirol, Judah Halevi and Judah Al-Harizi. However, he also displayed a significant Italian influence. His famous vision of Heaven and Hell, influenced by Dante’s work is contained in the final section. Because of certain lewd sections, Joseph Karo forbade its reading and consequently, a subsequent edition was not published for some two centuries. See Carmilly-Weinberger, pp.214-7. According to Cecil Roth, Immanuel of Rome was “the most remarkable and the most important figure of the Renaissance period in the Jewish world.” See C. Roth, The Jews in the Renaissance (1959) pp. 89-103.

ff. (156). Stained in places, opening four leaves rehinged with small paper repairs affecting few words, final page laid down, previous owner’s stamps. Modern calf. 4to

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