Proverbs (Mishlei). With commentary Kav VeNaki by David ben Solomon Ibn Yachya

(BIBLE)

Eliezer (Toledano)

Lisbon

(1492)

FIRST EDITION OF COMMENTARY. Text in large square print with nekudoth and accents. Commentary in fine Spanish cursive characters

Vinograd Lisbon 2 (apparently did not see a copy and does not provide a collation); Goff 35; Goldstein 96 (lists only one copy in the Brtish Isles in Cambridge University which according to Offenberg is also incomplete); Marx 19; Tishby 94; Wineman Cat. 61; Offenberg 44 (lists only five complete copies and five fragmentary) - Not in JNUL

The author (ca. 1440-1524) served as the Rabbi of Lisbon. However, as a result of his efforts on behalf of his fellow Spanish refugees in Portugal, he was denounced to the Portuguese king as a traitor. Ibn Yachya succeeded to escape to Naples, but the French, the new rulers of Naples, stripped him of his possessions and exiled him to Corfu. He finally settled in Constantinople where he published some of his other halachic and grammatical works (Hilchoth Treifoth and Leshon Lemudim)