Auction 95
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinic Letters, Ceremonial & Graphic Art
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KALONYMOS BEN KALONYMOS OF ARLES. Even Bochan [ethics in the form of satire]. Appended: Demuth Kisei Shlomo ...
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KALONYMOS BEN KALONYMOS OF ARLES. Even Bochan [ethics in the form of satire]. Appended: Demuth Kisei Shlomo HaMelech [legend of King Solomon's throne].
Second edition. First words within woodcut surround. On ff. 83v.-84r. Hebrew marginalia in old Italki hand discuss historical events alluded to by the text.
ff. 57-88. Stains. Modern calf. 8vo. Vinograd, Venice 260.
Venice, Cornelio Adelkind [Daniel Bomberg], 1546
The Provencal satirist Kalonymos of Arles (1287-1337) pokes fun at the human condition, at aspiring patricians who claim bogus pedigrees, self-proclaimed savants and pious frauds. Also here are historical references to the first expulsion from France in 1306, and to the massacres of 1320-1321.
See I. Davidson, Parody in Jewish Literature (1907), pp. 28-29; M. Waxman, A History of Jewish Literature (1933), Vol. II, pp.608-611; EJ, Vol. X, col. 721.
Bomberg issued this edition together with Ibn Gabirol's Mivchar Peninim, which is why the foliation begins with f.57.
