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Meshal Haqadmoni : fables from the distant past : a parallel Hebrew-English text = Sefer Meshal ha-ḳadmoni / edited and translated by Raphael Loewe.
- Title
- Meshal Haqadmoni : fables from the distant past : a parallel Hebrew-English text = Sefer Meshal ha-ḳadmoni / edited and translated by Raphael Loewe.
- Author
- Sahula, Isaac ben Solomon, active 13th century
- Publication
- Oxford ; Portland, OR : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2004.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copy B v.2 | Text | Request in advance | Heb 42450.164 Copy B v.2 | Off-site | |
| Copy B v.1 | Text | Request in advance | Heb 42450.164 Copy B v.1 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Loewe, Raphael
- Description
- 2 v. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The fables of Ibn Sahula in Meshal haqadmoni, presented here in English for the first time, provide a most unusual introduction to the intellectual and social universe of the Sephardi Jewish world of thirteenth-century Spain." "Ibn Sahula wrote his fables in rhymed prose, here rendered into English as rhymed couplets. They comprise a series of satirical debates between a cynic and a moralist, put into the mouths of animals; the moralist always triumphs. The debates, which touch on such subjects as time, the soul, the physical sciences and medicine, astronomy, and astrology, amply reflect human foibles, political compromise, and court intrigue. They are suffused throughout with traditional Jewish law and lore, a flavour reinforced by the profusion of biblical quotations reapplied." "This annotated edition has much to offer to scholars in many areas: medieval Hebrew literature, medieval intellectual history, Sephardi studies, and the history of thirteenth-century Spain." "Two full series of illustrations are reproduced alongside the text: the woodcuts from the second edition (Venice, c.1547), and the vignettes in the Rothschild Miscellany, a fifteenth-century Italian manuscript in the Israel Museum."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- Meshal ha-ḳadmoni. English & Hebrew
- Alternative Title
- Meshal ha-ḳadmoni.
- Meshal ha-ḳadmoni
- Sefer Meshal ha-ḳadmoni
- Meshal ha-ḳadmoni
- Subject
- Fables, Hebrew
- Genre/Form
- Fables
- Note
- English and Hebrew.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- V. 1 -- v. 2.
- ISBN
- 1874774560 (cloth)
- LCCN
- ^^2002016139
- OCLC
- 49805487
- SCSB-10989040
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library