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Giudaismo - Esopo ebraico - Berechiah Ben Natronai Ha-Nakdan
Parabolae Vulpium Rabbi Barachiae Nikdani [title in Hebrew and Latin] Translatae ex Hebraica in Linguam Latinam. Opera Melchioris Hanel Societatis Jesu, 1661
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Prague, in Typographia Universitatis, in Societatis Jesu ad S.Clementem College, 1661. In 8°. Engraved frontispiece depicting the animals of the fables, frontispiece in red and black, preface by Athanasius Kircher, facing Hebrew text with the Latin translation, burnishing, coeval full parchment binding.
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The collection, called the Hebrew Aesop, consists of 108 apologues inspired by the Arab tradition of Pancatantra and the corpus of Aesopian fables. Introduced by a learned preface by Kircher, the volume explicitly reveals its function as a school aid for learning the Hebrew language.
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