Ohel Ya’acov [commentary on the philosophical and mathematical passages of Joseph Albo’s Sepher Ikrim]

AUCTION 20 | Monday, June 02nd, 2003 at 5:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books from the Library of the Late Salman Schocken (1877-1959)

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KOPPELMAN, JACOB BEN SAMUEL BUNIM.

Ohel Ya’acov [commentary on the philosophical and mathematical passages of Joseph Albo’s Sepher Ikrim]

Second edition. Title within wreathed and garlanded architectural arch. Numerous woodcut charts, mathematical diagrams and illustrations. THE RABBI NACHUM DOV-BER FRIEDMAN OF SADIGURA COPY, with his stamp on title ff. 34. Dampstained in places, marginal repairs on a few leaves, occasional worming. Recent vellum-backed boards. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Cracow 213; Mehlman 1209; not in Adams; Ben Sasson, Hagut U’machshavah (Jerusalem, 1959) pp. 12-13

Cracow: Isaac ben Aaron Prostitz 1599

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,250

Born in the Baden town of Freiburg-im-Breisgau, the author, a Talmudic scholar, was also distinguished for his broad knowledge of secular sciences. Indeed, on the title page of this work he is described as ”the encyclopaedic scholar and divine philosopher.” A child prodigy, and student of Mordechai Jaffe, Koppelman studied mathematics and astrology in addition to intense occupation with traditional Jewish learning. He was 28 years old when he completed the present work