Mivchar Hapeninim [“Choice of Pearls”- ethics]

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $800

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

author

IBN GABIROL, SOLOMON

printer

Daniel Bomberg

Place

Venice

Publication

1546

Description

Second Edition. Opening words within elaborate woodcut border

references

Vinograd, Venice 271; Habermann, Bomberg 183

summary

The literary output of ibn Gabirol was immense. On the authenticity of ibn Gabirol’s authorship of the Mivchar Hapeninim, see A. Marx, Gabirol’s Authorship of the Choice of Pearls and the Two Versions of Joseph Kimchi’s Shekel Hakodesh, in: Studies in Books and Booklore (1944) pp. 9-25

ff. 40. Previous owners' marks, slight staining, scattered marginalia in an Ashkenazic hand. Modern calf. Sm. 4to

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