Ta’alumoth Chochmah [collected Kabbalistic and theological essays]. Part One “Bechinath Hada’ath” and Part Two “Novloth Chochmah”

AUCTION 12 | Tuesday, March 13th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 105

DELMEDIGO, JOSEPH SOLOMON OF CRETE.

Ta’alumoth Chochmah [collected Kabbalistic and theological essays]. Part One “Bechinath Hada’ath” and Part Two “Novloth Chochmah”

FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one, complete with 4 title pages, 3 within typographical borders. Also 7 folding charts, 6 between ff. 164&5, 1 between ff. 195&6. Apparently, with additional kabbalistic charts not called for by Prijs. ff. (1),10,110; ff.(8),208. Browned in places. Generally, in good condition. Contemporary vermilion vellum, spine repaired. 4to Vinograd, Hanau 56 & 60 & Basle 251a & 251b (not noting folding charts); Roest, Anhang 1334; Prijs, Basle 320

Basle (ie. Hanau): n.p 1629-1631

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

An important collection of treatises edited by Samuel Aschkenazi, including Elijah Delmedigo’s Bechinath Hada’ath - a re-working of Averroes’ Fasl al-Makl on the contradictory relationship between religious faith and philosophic reasoning. Elijah’s attack on the Kabbalah was refuted by his great-grandson Joseph Delmedigo in the part entitled Matzreph Lechachmah. For a detailed collation of all other parts (including the first apearance of various Epistles by Maimonides) see Prijs, Basle 320.