Even Bochan [“The Touch Stone”: ethics in the form of satire]

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $350

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author

KALONYMOS BEN KALONYMOS OF ARLES.

printer

Daniel Bomberg

Place

Venice

Publication

1546

Description

Second Edition. Originally issued together with two other treatises

references

Vinograd, Venice 260; Habermann, Bomberg 185

summary

The Provencal satirist Kalonymos of Arles (1287-1337) pokes fun at the human condition, at aspiring patricians who claim bogus pedigrees, self-proclaimed savants and pious frauds. Also here are historical references to the first expulsion from France in 1306, and to the massacres of 1320-21. See M. Waxman, A History of Jewish Literature (1933), Vol. II, pp. 608-11; EJ, Vol. X, col. 721

ff. 57-88. Previous owners' signature and stamp, slight marginal worming on final leaf. Moden boards. 8vo

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