Benjamin ben Jonah (12th century), Rabbi, of Tudela.

8vo (151 x 93mm.), [48], 234, [22]pp., illustration: woodcut printer's device to title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, binding: eighteenth-century blind-ruled calf, pink speckled edges, fragments of a thirteenth-century vellum manuscript (text from Numbers chapters 21 and 22) used as spine liner, rust hole in N6 affecting a few letters, light spotting, endpapers torn, binding rubbed

Willems 377; Pieters 122; Blackmer 120; cf. Cobham-Jeffery p.4

Benjamin of Tudela, "the Wandering Jew", made a particular ethnographic study of the Jewish population of the different lands in which he travelled. In Cyprus, for instance, he is stinging in his criticism of those who are "nempe Epicurei... Sabbathi vesperam profanant". Setting out from Spain in 1160, he included Constantinople, Jerusalem, Damascus, Baghdad and Alexandria in his thirteen year peregrination. This edition has parallel Latin and Hebrew text.