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Massekhet Purim and Other Texts and Poems, Kalonymos ben Kalonymos, [17th-18th century]

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December 18, 04:51 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Fols. 2r-11r: Massekhet Purim, a famous Purim parody.


Fols. 11v-22v: Minhat Yehuda Soneh ha-Nashim by Judah ibn Shabbethai, a satirical, misogynous, rhymed composition. See J. Schirmann, The History of Hebrew Poetry in Christian Spain and Southern France; supplemented and annotated by E. Fleischer, (1997), pp. 129-141(in Hebrew); T. Fishman, "A Medieval Parody of Misogyny: Judah ibn Shabbethai's Minhat Yehuda Soneh ha-Nashim," in Prooftexts, 8, (1988), pp. 89-111.


Fol. 23r: Stanzi al ha-Nashim, beginning: Daatan shel nashim, in Hebrew and Italian.


Fol. 25r: Poem, beginning: va-yehi bi-mei Ahashverosh, in Hebrew and Italian.


Fol. 26r: Poem: Eini shikkor ki im sameah.


This manuscript was intended as amusement for the Jewish holiday of Purim.


Sotheby’s is grateful to Menahem Schmelzer z”l and Benjamin Richler for cataloguing this manuscript.


Provenance

Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 373)


Physical Description

26 leaves on paper, 7 ½ x 5 ¼ inches; 190 x 134 mm, written in brown ink in Italian cursive scripts, modern foliation in pencil; six leaves (some with text) removed following the first leaf, some dampstaining, library stamp in red on second leaf and final leaf. Leather spine, cloth boards; recased, dust-soiled, somewhat worn, with note by H. Loewe inserted at back.


Literature

Hirschfeld (ms. no. 365); I. Davidson, Parody in Jewish Literature (1907); A. Neubauer, “Textes Hebraico-Italiens concernant les femmes,” in Rendiconti della R. Academia dei Lincei, 7, (1891), p. 350

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