Apr 24, 2006 - Sale 2076

Sale 2076 - Lot 138

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BERECHIAH BEN NATRONAI, ha-Nakdan. Mishlei shu'alim . . . Parabolae vulpium. Hebrew text with Latin translation by Melchior Hanel, S.J., on facing pages. [18], 435, [1] pages, including engraved frontispiece. 8vo, contemporary blind-stamped vellum with brass catches, lacks clasps, rebacked with linen. Prague: Typographia Universitatis, 1661
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Second edition in Hebrew and first in Latin of a 13th-century collection of animal fables derived chiefly from a similar late 12th-century work in French by Marie de France, as well as from other medieval fables with oriental sources. The original edition of the Hebrew text appeared in 1557. Backer-Sommervogel IV, 66; Vinograd, Prague 443.