RaLBa”G). Pirush Chamesh Megiloth [commentary to the Five Scrolls]

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 305

LEVI BEN GERSHOM (GERSONIDES/

RaLBa”G). Pirush Chamesh Megiloth [commentary to the Five Scrolls]

FIRST EDITION. Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes ff. 50. Stained in places, title rehinged, some leaves with neat marginal repairs, scattered marginal worming neatly repaired, scattered marginalia. Later vellum, gently rubbed at corners. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Riva di Trento 23; not in Adams

Riva di Trento: Jacob Marcaria the Physician 1560

Est: $800 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,400

In his commentary to Koheleth, seeking the main Aristotelian theories of practical ethics, Gersonides finds that the work deals with the application of the principles of conduct and the particular means for obtaining the aims involved in them. He explains the contradictions in the work, by the fact that the author includes views with which he does not agree in order to afford one a choice of action. He interprets The Song of Songs entirely as an allegory of the soul. See M. Waxman, Vol. II pp.39-43