[on cosmogony and thaumaturgy]. Anonymous (Attributed to Abraham the Patriach)

AUCTION 11 | Tuesday, November 28th, 2000 at 1:00
Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 124
SEPHER YETZIRAH

[on cosmogony and thaumaturgy]. Anonymous (Attributed to Abraham the Patriach)

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural arch. Numerous spherical charts and Kabbalistic diagrams. Lacking the rare additional illustrated leaf ff. 105. Stained in places, lower corners of final few leaves distressed not affecting text. Contemporary jade stained vellum, worn. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Mantua 86; not in Adams

Mantua: Jacob ben Naphtali Hacohen 1562

Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $950
“The earliest extant Hebrew text of systematic speculative thought” (Scholem)