Akeidath Yitzchak [philosophical and allegorical homilies to the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 8 | Tuesday, November 16th, 1999 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 246

ARAMA, ISAAC.

Akeidath Yitzchak [philosophical and allegorical homilies to the Pentateuch]

Second edition. Title within woodcut architectural arch. Openning word of each part within an elaborate border ff. 309. Lightly browned, opening three leaves remargined, signed by censor at end. Later blind- tooled mottled calf, rebacked. Folio Vinograd, Venice 326; Habermann, Bomberg 195; not in Adams

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1547

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $700

Representative of an anti-Aristotelian trend, directed chiefly against Maimonides and his followers, Arama’s philosophical influence is reflected primarily in the writings of Isaac Abarbanel