Modon, Simcha Cohen. Kol Musar.

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(POETRY).

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Raphael Haim D’Italia

Place

Mantua

Publication

1725

Description

Title within typographic border. Extensive use of headpieces and other decorative elements. Large typeface. Illustration of a “wheel of fortune” displaying of various human characteristics on f.31a. A wide-margined copy.

references

Vinograd, Mantua 330

summary

“Renewer of the Hebrew Sonnet” - Cecil Roth. Contains some fifty sonnets, that is, poems of fourteen lines. Many of the poems are based on motifs found in the Talmud and rabbinic literature through the ages. Some are reflections on the various Biblical commandments, such as the shofar sounded on Rosh Hashanah, and the Tefilin worn daily. See C. Roth,The History of the Jews of Italy (1946) p. 400.

ff. (32). Light staing, dampwrinkled. Contemporary calf backed marbled boards, spine slightly chipped and rubbed. 4to

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