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RARE FACSIMILE EDITION of "Gan HaMeshalim veHaHidot" ("The Garden of Parables and Riddles") - a collection of poems by Todros ben Judah Halevi Abulafia (1247-after 1300), a Jewish poet who wrote primarily in Hebrew, but also poems in Arabic. The collection of poems (diwan) was written mostly in Hebrew and included also poems by other authors, as well as 35 poems that represented a poetic debate between Todros Abulafia and the poet Phinehas Halevi. 245x185mm. Unpaginated. Blacl cloth Hardcover with gilt spine. Cover bottom edge slightly bumped. Cover corners rubbed. Spine edges rubbed and bumped. Fore-edge and upper corner of few first pages slightly tattered and stained - NO damage to text. Upper corner of few last pages slightly tattered and stained - NO damage to text. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare facsimile edition of poems by an eminent medieval Jewish poet, considered by some literary scholars as "probably the best and most prolific author of Christian Spain during the reigns of Alfonso the Learned and his son Sancho IV of Castile", is otherwise in good condition.