Sepher Ikarim [philosophy].

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Lot 31

ALBO, JOSEPH

Sepher Ikarim [philosophy].

Prominent printers device on title (Ya’ari, Hebrew Printers’ Marks no. 6). Initial letters of opening word in white-on-black decorative vignettes surrounded by historiated engraved border-piece. Few marginal notes in an early hand. ff. (154). Ex-library, few stains in places, title-page worn with taped repair on left margin. Modern calf. 4to. Vinograd, Rimini 4; Mehlman 1191.

Rimini: Gershom Soncino 1522

Est: $4,000 - $5,000

Albo’s Sepher Ikarim presented religious-philosophical problems in a form that was accessible and comprehensible to all. For a brief examination of Albo’s philosophies and the thinkers upon whose ideas he built, see I. Zinberg, A History of Jewish Literature, Vol. III (1974) pp. 233-39: “It is a popular work, permeated with the heartfelt accents of the inspired preacher.”