Chibur Yaffe Mehayeshua [fables and parables]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

NISSIM BAR YA’AKOV OF KAIROUAN.

printer

Hertz Levi Rophe & son-in-law

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1746

Description

Second edition. Title within a typographical border

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1591

summary

This collection of folktales, designed to strengthen faith, is likely the first prose work in medieval Hebrew literature - so paving the way for the Hebrew belletristic form as a literary genre. Stemming from the Tunisian city of Kairouan, the author was one of the outstanding leaders of North African Jewry flourishing in the first half of the 11th century. See M. Gaster, The Exampla of the Rabbis (1968); and EJ, Vol. XII cols. 1183-4.

ff. 40. Lightly browned and stained, previous owners signatures. Contemporary calf, broken. Sm. 8vo.

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