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-Berechiah ha-Nakdan
(Hebrew).
Mishle shu'alim (hebr.) Parabolae vulpium. Rabbi Barachiae Nikdani. Translatae ex Hebraica in linguam Latinam opera M. Hanel. With gest.
Frontispiece.
Prague, In Typographia Universitatis, 1661. 8°. 8] sheet, 435 (recte 393) S. leather strap from the 19th century. (a little rubbed
).
Stonecutters 4575.2 - Prince II, 210 - Freimann, p. 320 - De Backer/S. IV, 66th - Second edition with parallel Latin translation by the Jesuit Melchior Hanel and a foreword by Athanasius Kircher, who studied Hebrew with Hanel. - Rare collection of Hebrew fables by Rabbi Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan (lat. Barachia Nikdani, lived in the 12th/13th century) These "are a paraphrase of Aesop's fables; some pieces go back to the Hebrew adaptation of the Indian book of fables 'Kalilah we-Dimnah'". (Jewish Encyclopedia I, p. 847). - Browned and finger-stained, in the edges sometimes also wet stains.
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JUDAICA
-Berechiah ha-Nakdan
(Hebrew).
Mishle shu'alim (hebr.) Parabolae vulpium. Rabbi Barachiae Nikdani. Translatae ex Hebraica in linguam Latinam opera M. Hanel. With gest.
Frontispiece.
Prague, In Typographia Universitatis, 1661. 8°. 8] sheet, 435 (recte 393) S. leather strap from the 19th century. (a little rubbed
).
Stonecutters 4575.2 - Prince II, 210 - Freimann, p. 320 - De Backer/S. IV, 66th - Second edition with parallel Latin translation by the Jesuit Melchior Hanel and a foreword by Athanasius Kircher, who studied Hebrew with Hanel. - Rare collection of Hebrew fables by Rabbi Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan (lat. Barachia Nikdani, lived in the 12th/13th century) These "are a paraphrase of Aesop's fables; some pieces go back to the Hebrew adaptation of the Indian book of fables 'Kalilah we-Dimnah'". (Jewish Encyclopedia I, p. 847). - Browned and finger-stained, in the edges sometimes also wet stains.
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