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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793044203321

Autore

Sahula Isaac ben Solomon <active 13th century, >

Titolo

Meshal Haqadmoni : fables from the distant past : a parallel Hebrew-English text / / Isaac ibn Saula ; edited and translated by Raphael Loewe = [Sefer Meshal ha-ḳadmoni] / le-R. Yitsḥaḳ ben Shelomoh n. Sahulah ; hehediro ṿe-tirgemo Anglit Refaʼel ha-Leṿi Loeṿe]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Portland, OR : , : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, , 2004

ISBN

1-80034-027-3

1-909821-35-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (2 volumes (cxxxi, 816 pages)) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Liverpool scholarship online

Disciplina

398.2/089/924

Soggetti

Fables, Hebrew

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Publisher's Note; The Illustrations; Preface; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Meshal Haqadmoni: Fables from the Distant Past; Dedication; Prologue; Introduction; Preface to the First Part; Part I: On Wisdom; Part II: On Penitence; Part III: On Sound Counsel; Part IV: On Humility; Part V: On Reverence; Colophons; Appendices; Appendix 1: Astronomical Diagrams; Appendix 2: Supplementary Notes to the Poem; Appendix 3: Numbered Notes to the Illustrations; Bibliography; Index of Citations; Index of Key Hebrew Terms; Index of Subjects

Sommario/riassunto

A presentation of the intellectual and social universe of the Sephardi Jewish world of thirteenth-century Spain seen through moralistic animal fables in Hebrew, translated into English as rhymed couplets. The fables, which comprise moral debates rich in contemporary satire, also include disquisitions on such subjects as time, the soul, the physical sciences and medicine, astronomy, and astrology, suffused throughout with traditional Jewish law and lore. With full explanatory notes and scholarly apparatus and complete sets of illustrations from the Rothschild manuscript and the 1547 Venice edition.