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Bidding Information
Lot #    15825
Auction End Date    10/24/2006 10:12:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Divrei ha-Yamim shel Moshe Rabbenu
Title (Hebrew)    דברי הימים של משה רבינו
City    Paris
Publisher    Tussanus Du Bray
Publication Date    1628-29
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   33, [1], 34-58 ff.; [14], 409, [7] pp., 168:105 mm., wide crisp margins, light age and damp staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary full vellum wrappers.
          
Detailed
Description
   Story on the life of Moses written in the early Middle Ages. The prophet's early life, before the Exodus from Egypt, forms the major part of the story while his later life and death are described only very briefly. The author based himself on some of the midrashic interpretations of the life of Moses as told in the Book of Exodus.

According to the story, Balaam‘s the Magician was adviser to the king of Egypt in Moses' time; Jethro, also one of the king's advisers, was driven away from the royal court after he tried to help the Jews in Egypt. The author also describes a number of miracles (not mentioned in the Bible) that supposedly occurred in Moses' youth and which saved him from disaster. Completely new stories were also added to Moses' biography, e.g., a very detailed tale about his becoming king of Ethiopia, after he had driven away Balaam who had seized the Ethiopian throne. In the story, Moses reigned for 40 years in the kingdom.

          
Paragraph 2    כולל "דברי הימים של משה רבינו" ו"פטירת משה רבינו", על פי הוצאת ויניציאה ש"ד, ו"דרש לפטירת משה רבינו", מכתב-יד. הספירה השנייה: לאטינית, עם שער נוסף: דברי הימים ופטירתו של מרע"ה

Latin title: De Vita et Morte Mosis Pibri tres. Gilbertus Gavlmyn Molinensis ex MS. exemplaribus, primus Hebraice edidit, Latina interpretatione & Notis illustrauit .... 1629.

          
Reference
Description
   EJ; CD-EPI 0124968
        
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Listing Classification
Period
16th Century:    Checked
  
Location
France:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
Other:    Fables
  
Characteristic
Bindings:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew, Latin
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica