Mekor Chaim [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch]

ZARZA, SAMUEL

Meir b. Ephraim of Padua & Partner

Mantua

1559

FIRST EDITION. Owner’s signature on title page: Binyamin b. Hirsch Niederhofheim.

Vinograd, Mantua 63 (noting the existence of typographic variances); Adams S-241

This 14th-century Spanish philosopher resident of Valencia, recounts in the introduction of the present work the suffering of the Jews of Castille as a result of the civil-war between Dom Pedro, Duke of Coimbra and his brother Henry the Navigator. In Toledo alone, 10,000 Jews are said to have lost their lives.