(Author of Kol Mussar, 1679-1727). Autograph signed poetic sonnet. Shirah Chadasha Shibchu Yisra’elim [against an apostate who embraced Christianity].

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

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author

MODON, SAMSON COHEN.

printer

circa

Place

(Mantua)

Publication

1700

Description

Hebrew manuscript.

summary

Cecil Roth gives high marks to the poetic achievement of Modon, “renewer of the Hebrew sonnet, who won golden opinions when he was sent on a congratulatory mission to the Emperor Charles VI.” His Kol Mussar (Mantua, 1725) contains fifty similar types of sonnets (poems of fourteen lines). See C. Roth, The History of the Jews of Italy (1946), p. 400; D. Bregman & A. Brener. The Emergence of the Hebrew Sonnet, in: Prooftexts. Vol. 11, no. 3 (1991), pp. 231-39.

One page. Fourteen lines. Neat Italian semi-cursive script. Heading in square script.

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