David Franco Mendes. “Ben ish peneh eilai be-tuv chinecha” [Epithalamium or Wedding Riddle]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,400

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

author

(DUTCH JUDAICA)

Place

(Holland)

Publication

18th Century

Description

Hebrew manuscript on single paper leaf. Finely penned illustration relating to Hebrew riddle in square characters provided with nikud (vowel points). Poem in double columns

summary

Depicts a contemporary Dutchman, wearing a peruque, holding hat in hand, with the anomaly that at the waist his body is severed in two. See Dan Pagis, Al Sod Hatum: Le-toldoth ha-chidah ha-Ivrith be-Italia u-be-Holland (1986), p.250

Folds (repaired on verso). 6 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches

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