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Treatise on Hebrew poetry and rhetoric by R. Solomon Ben David De Oliveyra. There is an introduction by de Oliveyra. The book is comprised of text and verse, including exercises, and concludes with an epilogue from the author and a pictogram. The title page has an architectural frame and two dates. The first, is dated “the month of Ziv (Iyyar) ‘But the olive tree ה"זית (5457= 1657) said to them’” (Judges 9:9) and the date that it came to press, “O Solomon, must have one thousand (ה"אלף לך שלמה [5]425=1665)”(Shir ha-Shirim 8:12).
R. Solomon Ben David De Oliveyra (d. 1708), Hakham, philologist, and poet, was born in Lisbon but resided in Amsterdam, where he was the preacher at several philanthropic institutions. De Oliveyra succeeded R. Moses Raphael de Aguilar as teacher at the Keter Torah in Amsterdam, and was a member of the rabbinical council, over which he presided after the death of R. Jacob Sasportas in 1698. De Oliveyra’s other works include several grammatical treatises, lexicons and translations, most importantly, Sharshot Gavlut (Amsterdam, 1665), consisting of a dictionary of rhymes with chapters on meter and Darkhei No’am (ibid., 1688–89), a guide to the study of the Talmud, and, for school use, Ez Hayyim, a Hebrew-Aramaic-Portuguese lexicon (Amsterdam, 1682); and Zayit Ra'anan, a collection of Talmudic and scientific Hebrew terms with some Hebrew riddles (ib. 1683). |
