Olath Shabbath [sermons for the Sabbath]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $800

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author

IBN SHUAIB, JOEL.

printer

Giovanni di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1577

Description

First Edition. Title within woodcut architectural arch. Previous owner’s signature with inscription containing bibliographic. information pertaining to the authors other works in an Italian hand, another signature in an Ashkenazic hand (Shlomo b. Aaron Fisher, born in Eisenstadt)

references

Vinograd, Venice 625; Haberman, di Gara 44; Adams I-18

summary

A native of Spain, ibn Shuaib lived in Saragossa shortly before the expulsion in 1492 wheupon he moved to Salonica. The collected sermons here, reveal both an extensive rabbinic as well as broad general cultural knowledge. His work provides insights to the social structures prevelant in Spanish Jewish society. See EJ, IIX col.1201

ff. (8), 160. Dampstained heavily so along margins toward the end. Title affected by heavy ink inscription on verso. Later mottled calf, rubbed. Folio

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