Avodath Hakodesh [kabbalah]

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 148

IBN GABBAI, MEIR BEN EZEKIEL

Avodath Hakodesh [kabbalah]

Second edition. Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes. Printer’s device on title. (cf. Yaari’s Printer’s Marks nos. 30-31) ff. 139. Lightly browned, dampstained in places, title and last leaf frayed at edges. Recent morocco-backed boards. Folio Vinograd, Venice 549; Mehlman 1053; Adams M-1049

Venice: Giovanni Griffio 1567

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $1,900

“Avodath Ha’kodesh was perhaps the finest account of kabbalistic speculation before the resurgance of the kabbalah in Safed”. G. Scholem, Kabbalah in EJ, X, col. 542. The first two editions of the work were titled Maroth Elokim, thereafter all subsequent editions were known as Avodath Hakodesh.