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

ZARZA, SAMUEL

Meir b. Ephraim of Padua & Jakob b. Naphtali Hakohen of Gazolo

Mantua

1559

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch. Title with previous owner’s signature and inscription in a fine Ashkenazic hand, London, 1732

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

With a Hebrew ownership inscription on title, London, 1732. The author, a 14th-century Spanish philosopher 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. In his afterword, the author states he included an exposition of most of Moreh Nevuchim as few of his generation fully comprehended Maimonides’ thought process