Ohr Amim [“Light of the Nations”: philosophy, opposing Aristotelianism]

AUCTION 34 | Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 1:00

Exemplary Hebrew Books: The Library of Joseph Gradenwitz, Esq.

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Lot 133

SFORNO, OBADIAH

Ohr Amim [“Light of the Nations”: philosophy, opposing Aristotelianism]

FIRST EDITION. Initial word within decorative frame. A wide-margined copy ff. 64. Lightly stained in places. Later calf-backed marbled boards, rubbed. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Bologna 8; Mehlman 1219; Adams O-1

Bologna: The Company of Silk Weavers 1537

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

Obadiah Sforno of Bologna (known in Latin as Salvadeus), (ca. 1470-ca. 1550), was a physician by profession. In this slim volume, Sforno quotes abundantly from the Greek philosopher Aristotle and the Arab philosophers Ibn Rushd (Averroes) and al-Ghazali. A Latin version apeared under the title Lumen Gentium (Bologna, 1548). See EJ, Vol. XIV, cols. 1209-1210. This work was the first of only nine books printed by the Jewish Silk Weaver’s Guild of Bologna. See Amram, The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy, pp.232-35