Auction 30 · Lot 304

Nora Tehiloth [commentary to the Book of Psalms]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $3,000

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

author

SHUA’IB, JOEL IBN

printer

Joseph Ya’avetz

Place

Salonika

Publication

1568-9

Description

FIRST EDITION. Four parts bound in one volume. Florets as headpieces and tailpieces

references

Vinograd, Salonika 85; Mehlman 681; Adams I-18 (incomplete); St. Cat. Bodl. no.5838.3 (incomplete)

summary

Seldom found complete. The second volume was issued in a differing format, no doubt necessitated by difficulties in obtaining paper. Joel ibn Shua’ib, an inhabitant of the Navarre region of Spain, was a famed preacher. Besides the present Nora Tehiloth on Psalms, his commentary on Lamentations was published (Salonika, 1521), as well as a collection of his Sabbath sermons under the title Olath Shabbath (Venice, 1577). Nora Tehiloth is scathingly critical of the Spanish Marranos, whom the author views as apostates. See B. Netanyahu, The Marranos of Spain (1966) p. 930; EJ, Vol. VIII, col. 1201

I: ff. 203, (1) - lacking 10 leaves? (Mehlman calls for ff. 210, 4). II: ff. 211-322, (2). ff. 243-250, 303-4 misbound. Stained and wormed. Title and first 5 leaves, f.124 and ff. 201-203 taped. Modern blind-tooled calf. 4to

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