Modon, Simcha Cohen. Kol Musar

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(POETRY).

printer

Raphael Haim D’Italia

Place

Mantua

Publication

1725

Description

Title within typographic border. Extensive use of headpieces and other decorative elements. Large typeface. On 31a, a “wheel of fortune” diagram of various human characteristics

references

Vinograd, Mantua 330

summary

“Renewer of the Hebrew Sonnet.” C. Roth,The History of the Jews of Italy (1946) p. 400. Includes fifty sonnets (poems of fourteen lines), reflecting on the various Biblical commandments based on motifs found in rabbinic literature. See also Modon’s sonnet 46, “On the Three Types of Writing ” - the poet sings the virtues of paper, vellum, and rag

ff. 32. Contemporary boards. 4to

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