Sepher Machberoth Immanuel [poetry]

Estimate

$2,000–$2,500

Hammer price

Not recorded

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author

IMMANUEL BEN SOLOMON OF ROME.

printer

Eliezer ben Gershom Soncino

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1535

Description

Second Edition.

references

Vinograd, Const. 153; Yaari, Const. 119.

summary

Immanuel of Rome (c. 1261-1368), known in Italian as Manoello Giudeo, modeled his literary work on the classic Sephardic poets - Solomon ibn Gabirol, Judah Halevi and Judah Al-Harizi. His famous vision of Heaven and Hell, influenced by Dante’s work is contained in the final section. Because of certain lewd sections, R. Joseph Karo forbade its reading and consequently, the subsequent edition was not published for another two centuries. According to Cecil Roth, Immanuel of Rome was “the most remarkable and the most important figure of the Renaissance period in the Jewish world.” See C. Roth, The Jews in the Renaissance (1959) pp. 89-10.

ff. (156). Browned and stained in places, first two leaves repaired affecting some words, marginal repair on some leaves not affecting text, f. 4 of gathering 38 is reversed, ex-library. Modern tooled calf. Sm. 4to.

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