Samuel Zanvil ben Benjamin of Worms. Chidah Shel Harav R. Zanvil MiVermeisa [a Torah-based riddle]

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(RIDDLE).

Place

n.p.

Publication

(1669)

Description

Single printed page, set within typographic borders. One word added in manuscript (likely in the hand of the author).

summary

Bibliographically entirely unrecorded. Six paragraph poetic riddle commencing with the words “Mi zoth hanishkafa lema’alah min hasafah.” Each line ending in the suffix “Ta” - as per the Shevu’oth Akdamoth hymn. The poem as a whole, forms an acrostic of the author’s name.

Laid down. Sm. folio.

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