ISAAC BEN ḤAYYIM BEN ABRAHAM
- ISAAC BEN ḤAYYIM BEN ABRAHAM
- ISAAC BEN ḤAYYIM BEN ABRAHAM (c. 1500), Spanish-Hebrew poet.
Isaac left Spain, according to his own testimony, in the summer of 1492,
together with the exiles from the city of Jativa. Later he came to
Naples and Apulia. In Adar 1501 he was in Constantinople, where in 1503,
he composed a parody on a marriage contract. Isaac's works Ma'yan
Gannim and Eẓ Ḥayyim (manuscript in the Bodleian
Library) contain, among others, a detailed work on prosody,
Melekhet ha-Shir, poems by himself and by his grandfather,
Isaac b. Joseph.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Neubauer, Cat, 2 (1906), 186, no. 2770; M. Drechsler, Mekonen
Evlenu (1932); Davidson, Oẓar, 4 (1933), 420.
(Jefim (Hayyim) Schirmann)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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