Pirkei Rebi Eliezer (Attributed to Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, brother-in-law of Raban Gamliel).

Estimate

$700–$900

Hammer price

$1,000

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

author

(MIDRASH)

printer

Vincenzo Conti

Place

Sabbioneta

Publication

1567

Description

Printer’s device on title (Yaari, Hebrew Printers Marks, no. 26).

references

Vinograd, Sabbioneta 54.

summary

Pirkei Rebi Eliezer aims to inculcate ethical teachings for daily life by demonstrating moral values deduced from the Biblical narrative. The works’ style waxes poetic, especially concerning the coming of the Messiah, a subject to which many passages are devoted. “It cannot be said to be a strictly ethical book as it contains a good deal of extraneous matters, such as chapters on astronomy, the calculation of the calendar and many exotic legends.” See M. Waxman, History of Jewish Literature Vol. I, pp. 144-5.

ff. 46. Worn and stained, signed by censors at end. Later limp vellum. Sm. 4to.

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