Meldola, Jacob Chai ben David. Eisheth Chayil ["Woman of Valor": Laws and prayers for women]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(WOMEN)

printer

Giovanni Vincenzio

Place

Livorno

Publication

1782

Description

Bilingual edition: Hebrew texts in square characters with instructions in Rashi script (right to left); Italian interspersed with Hebrew (left to right)

references

Vinograd, Livorno 185

summary

A CHARMING BOOK. The Italian poet Jacob Meldola was the son of Haham David Meldola (d. 1745) who served as Rosh Yeshiva of Livorno. The Meldolas were Sephardim who settled in Livorno, spiritually enriching Jewish life throughout the Sephardi diaspora for two centuries. See JE, Vol. VIII, p. 451 (Genealogical Tree of the Meldola Family), and p.454, no. 21

ff. 5; pp. 6. Trace foxed, small tear to lower margin of final leaf. Ex-library. Contemporary stiff floriated wrappers. 12mo

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