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Bidding Information
Lot #    20181
Auction End Date    4/1/2008 10:24:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Espejo fiel de Vidas que contiene los
Title (Hebrew)    Palmos de David in Verso
Author    [Psalms - Americana] Daniel Israel Lopez Laguna
City    London - Jamaica
Publisher    Haham
Publication Date    1720
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. Frontispiece, [50], 286, [2] pp., 237:191 mm., wide margins, usual light age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary leather over boards, rubbed and split.
          
Detailed
Description		    Daniel Israel Lopez Laguna (c. 1653–c. 1730), Portuguese-born poet of Marrano parentage. As a child, Laguna was taken to Peyrehorade in the south of France. Later he went to study in Spain, where he was arrested by the Inquisition. On his eventual release, presumably after reconciliation to the Church, he settled in Jamaica; there he openly professed Judaism and was naturalized in 1693. About 1720 he went to London where with the help of Mordecai Nuñes de Almeyda, his patron, he published a paraphrase of the Psalms in a variety of Spanish verse forms. He dedicated the work, titled Espejo fiel de Vidas que contiene los Palmos de David in Verso (London, 1720), to De Almeyda. The book had been planned in prison and was the fruit of 23 years' labor. In a number of places, the author makes allusions to the Inquisition and its persecutions. The volume is prefaced by commendatory poems by some 20 persons, including women, in Hebrew, Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, and English. Laguna later returned to Jamaica, to his wife and three sons David, Jacob, and Isaac, and died there.
          
Reference
Description		    Roth, Marranos, 330–1; I. Solomons, in: JHSET, 12 (1931), 92–93; M. Kayserling, in: JQR, 12 (1900), 708–17; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
England:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Marrano
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Spanish, some Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica