Chazuth Kashah [“Grievous Vision”]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $580

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author

ARAMA, ISAAC

printer

Tobias Foa

Place

Sabbioneta

Publication

1552

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within wreathed architectural columns, printer’s device at end (Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 19)

references

Vinograd, Sabbioneta 3

summary

“In Spain, the plague of studying Gentile knowledge in the Christian tongue, which is antithetic to our faith, has spread…” (f. 29r.). Regarding this acerbic tract, see Zinberg, Vol. III, pp. 257-60; I. Sonne, "Some Remarks on Hebrew Printing in Sabbioneta," in Kiryath Sepher IV, pp. 269-273; and A. Yaari, Mechkarei Sepher, pp. 345-347 (a critique of Sonne).

ff. 38. Stains and Church-censored lines. Some of sidebars lost to marginal cropping. Modern patterned boards. 4to

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