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Lot #    9768
Auction End Date    3/22/2005 1:07:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Me'ir Tehillot
Title (Hebrew)    מאיר תהלות
Author    [First Ed. - Psalms] R. Meir b. Isaac Arama
City    Venice
Publisher    Jaun D'Gara
Publication Date    1590
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
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Physical
Description
   First edition. 148 [i.e. 150] ff., 194:135 mm., nice margins, age and use staining, f. 12 from a shorter copy, old Italian? hand on all ff. A good copy bound in modern full leather boards, tooled in blind.
          
Detailed
Description
   Psalms with the commentary.

R. Meir b. Isaac Arama (1460?–c. 1545), Spanish rabbi, biblical commentator, and philosopher. Born in Saragossa, R. Arama left Spain, together with his father R. Isaac Arama, at the time of the expulsion (1492), and went to Naples. He remained there until compelled to move in 1495 when the French conquered the city, and later that year finally settled in Salonika, where he was appointed rabbi and preacher of the emigre Aragonian congregation. Although the many halakhic decisions he wrote as congregational rabbi and dayyan were not preserved, some are mentioned in the works of contemporaries.

R. Arama wrote: (1) Urim ve-Tummim, a commentary on Isaiah and Jeremiah (Venice, 1603); (2) Me'ir Iyyov, a commentary on Job, written in 1506 (Salonika, 1517); (3) Me'ir Tehillot, on Psalms, written in 1512 (Venice, 1590); (4) a commentary on the Song of Songs, published in Likkutei Shoshannim by Isaac Gershon (1602); and (5) a commentary on Esther, incorrectly attributed to his father, published together with his father's Akedat Yizhak (Venice, 1573). An anthology of aphorisms, Imrei Kadosh - Zikkukin di-Nurim (1894), has been attributed to him. R. Arama's commentaries, in common with those of his father, are written in the form of philosophical allegories, although he opposed the study of philosophy. R. Moses Almosnino was on close terms with him and cites his opinions, as does R. Solomon ha-Levi Alkabez. His son, R. Jacob, was a dayyan in Salonika. Compendia of biblical commentaries compiled by the 16th-century Turkish scholars, such as that of R. Joseph Taitazak, include many of Arama's commentaries, which are signed "R.M.A." or "ha-Meiri".

          
Paragraph 2    באור תלים [עם הפנים] להרב... ר' מאיר ערמה זלה"ה (מגיה... ר' יצחק גרשון... ולאשר חסרו רבי' מזמורים למחבר ז"ל, שלא מצאנו פירושו בהם, שמנו במקומ' הפי' אשר פי' בהם... ר' יוסף טיאטצק זלה"ה)... הביאו אל הדפוס... ר' יצחק אבואב...

המגיה ר' יצחק גרשון הוסיף הערות והשלמות.

          
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   CD-EPI 0182250; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
16th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica