Modon, Samson Cohen. Kol Musar [“The Voice of Ethics”]

Estimate: $2,000–$2,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(POETRY).

printer

Raphael Chaim D’Italia

Place

Mantua

Publication

1725

Description

Title within typographic border. Extensive use of headpieces and other decorative elements. Large typeface. Corrections in hand on ff. 11r., 14r., 17r., 27v.(Indubitably, in author’s hand.) On f.31r., a “wheel of fortune” of various human characteristics

references

Vinograd, Mantua 330

summary

“Renewer of the Hebrew Sonnet” - Cecil Roth Contains some fifty sonnets, that is, poems of fourteen lines. Many of the poems are based on motifs found in the Talmud and rabbinic literature through the ages. Some are reflections on the various Biblical commandments, such as the shophar sounded on Rosh Hashanah, and the tephilin worn daily. See C. Roth,The History of the Jews of Italy (1946) p. 400

ff. 32. Light stains. Contemporary stiff wrappers. 4to

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