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Lot #    7814
Auction End Date    8/17/2004 1:46:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Kinnor David
Title (Hebrew)    ëðåø ãåã
Author    [Haskalah -Presentation Copy] David Moses Mitzkun
City    Vilna
Publisher    Samuel Joseph Fuenn & Abraham Zevi Rosenkranz
Publication Date    1863
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [2], x, 11-202 pp., 166:105 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary full tooled cloth boards.
          
Paragraph 1    Presentation copy with the Author's inscription on verso of red title.
          
Detailed
Description		    Verse from David Moses ben Kalmun Mitzkun. Kinnor David has three title pages, an introduction from Mitzkun (iii-ix), table of contents (x), and then the text. At the end of the volume are notes on the books chapters (193-201), and errata (202). The verso of the first title page has an inscription from the author. The text is comprised of twenty three poems with titles such as, Divrei David, Kinnor David, Ma’arot Elokim, Tehilla le-David, Tephillah le-Moshe, Shir Zahav, ha-Temurah, Shir ha-Yihud, Mizmor le-Assaf, Cain, Shalom me-Pahad.

David Moses Mitzkun (1836-87) was a Russian Hebraist. A writer of Hebrew prose and poetry, Mitzkun maintained himself chiefly by teaching Hebrew. Kinnor David is Mitzkun’s only published work.

          
Reference
Description		    JE; Vinograd, Vilna 1153
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Haskalah
  
Characteristic
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First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica