Auction 48 · Lot 148

Even Bochan [ethics in the form of satire]. Appended: Demuth Kisei Shlomo HaMelech [legend of King Solomon's throne]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $650

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

author

KALONYMOS BEN KALONYMOS OF ARLES.

printer

Cornelio Adel-Kind [i.e. Daniel Bomberg]

Place

Venice

Publication

1546

Description

Second Edition. First words within woodcut surround. On ff. 83v.-84r. Hebrew marginalia in old Italki hand discuss historical events alluded to by the text.

references

Vinograd, Venice 260; Haberman, 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 Also here are historical references to the first expulsion from France in 1306, and to the massacres of 1320-1321. See I. Davidson, Parody in Jewish Literature (1907), pp. 28-29; M. Waxman, A History of Jewish Literature (1933), Vol. II, pp.608-611; EJ, Vol. X, col. 721. Bomberg issued this edition together with Ibn Gabirol's Mivchar Peninim, which is why the foliation begins with f.57.

ff. 57-88. Stains. Later boards. 8vo

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