Meshal Haqadmoni : fables from the distant past : a parallel Hebrew-English text / Isaac ibn Saula ; edited and translated by Raphael Loewe = [Sefer Meshal ha-ḳadmoni] / le-R. Yitsḥaḳ ben Shelomoh n. Sahulah ; hehediro ṿe-tirgemo Anglit Refaʼel ha-Leṿi Loeṿe].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sahula, Isaac ben Solomon, active 13th century, author.

Contributor:

Loewe, Raphael, editor.

Series:

Liverpool scholarship online.

Liverpool scholarship online

Standardized Title:

Meshal ha-ḳadmoni. English & Hebrew

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Fables, Hebrew.

Genre:

Anthologie.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 volumes (cxxxi, 816 pages)) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Sefer Meshal ha-ḳadmoni

Place of Publication:

Portland, OR : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2004.

Language Note:

In English and Hebrew.

Summary:

<P>A presentation of the intellectual and social universe of the Sephardi Jewish world of thirteenth-century Spain seen through moralistic animal fables in Hebrew, translated into English as rhymed couplets. The fables, which comprise moral debates rich in contemporary satire, also include disquisitions on such subjects as time, the soul, the physical sciences and medicine, astronomy, and astrology, suffused throughout with traditional Jewish law and lore. With full explanatory notes and scholarly apparatus and complete sets of illustrations from the Rothschild manuscript and the 1547 Venice edition.</p>.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Publisher's Note; The Illustrations; Preface; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Meshal Haqadmoni: Fables from the Distant Past; Dedication; Prologue; Introduction; Preface to the First Part; Part I: On Wisdom; Part II: On Penitence; Part III: On Sound Counsel; Part IV: On Humility; Part V: On Reverence; Colophons; Appendices; Appendix 1: Astronomical Diagrams; Appendix 2: Supplementary Notes to the Poem; Appendix 3: Numbered Notes to the Illustrations; Bibliography; Index of Citations; Index of Key Hebrew Terms; Index of Subjects

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80034-027-3

1-909821-35-7

OCLC:

1048793828