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LOT 31:
"The Garden of Parables and Riddles" - poems and songs, riddles and parables
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"The Garden of Parables and Riddles" - poems and songs, riddles and parables
By the Prince Todros HaLevi ibn Abulafia, as copied by Mr. Shaul Yosef from Hong Kong from the manuscript with an introduction, published by Moshe ben Avraham Menachem Gestir, copy of the manuscript.
London, 1926.
Condition: moth holes, stains, spine of the binding slightly loose.
Todros ben Yehuda HaLevi Abulafia (1247 - 1306) was a Hebrew poet in Christian Spain in the Middle Ages.
He left a large collection of his poetry, which he named "The Garden of Parables and Riddles", consisting of about 1,100 poems. Abulafia's poetry contains many components which are unique to Spanish poetry, including influence of the Christian Spanish poetry.
