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

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $500

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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. Title within architectural arch. Signed on title-page Jacob Baruch Hakohen Vital

references

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

summary

This 14th-century Spanish philosopher and resident of 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. Stained in places, f.2 and last few leaves rehinged, neat repairs to ff. 5-7. Later marbled boards, rubbed at edges, rebacked. Sm. folio

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