Mekor Chaim [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch]

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

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author

ZARZA, SAMUEL.

printer

Meir b. Ephraim of Padua & Jakob b. Naphtali Hakohen of Gazolo

Place

Mantua

Publication

1559

Description

FIRST EDITION.

references

Vinograd, Mantua 63 (noting the existence of typographic variances); Adams S-241.

summary

The author, a 14th-century Spanish philosopher resident in Valencia, recounts in the introduction of the present work the suffering of the Jews of Castille as a result of the civil-war between Dom Pedro, Duke of Coimbra and his brother Henry the Navigator. In Toledo alone 10,000 Jews are said to have lost their lives.

ff. 130. Lightly stained, previous owners’ stamp on title excised, manuscript notes on front flyleaf in a late Ashkenazic hand in pencil noting two interesting passages. Later calf, rubbed. Sm. folio.

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