02861oam 22004812 450 991082844740332120231121161521.01-80034-027-31-909821-35-7(CKB)4100000005599785(UkCbUP)CR9781909821354(Au-PeEL)EBL5485130(OCoLC)1048793828(StDuBDS)EDZ0002316248(MiAaPQ)EBC5485130(EXLCZ)99410000000559978520200611d2004|||| uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMeshal 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]Portland, OR :Littman Library of Jewish Civilization,2004.1 online resource (2 volumes (cxxxi, 816 pages)) digital, PDF file(s)Liverpool scholarship online1-874774-56-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 SubjectsA 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.Liverpool scholarship online.Sefer Meshal ha-ḳadmoniFables, HebrewFables, Hebrew.398.2/089/924Sahula Isaac ben Solomonactive 13th century,929853Loewe RaphaelUkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910828447403321Meshal Haqadmoni3916091UNINA