Sepher ha-Gedarim...Michlal Yofi [“Book of Definitions”: lexicon of philosophical terms]. * Printed with (as issued): Pirkei HaHatzlacha [philosophic work] Attributed to Maimonides [Sic] ?

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Sepher ha-Gedarim...Michlal Yofi [“Book of Definitions”: lexicon of philosophical terms]. * Printed with (as issued): Pirkei HaHatzlacha [philosophic work] Attributed to Maimonides [Sic] ?

FIRST EDITION. Ya'avetz-style florets on title. Wide-margined copy ff.(50). Dampstained throughout. Modern gilt-tooled crushed morocco. 4to Vinograd, Salonika 71; Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book pp. 590-1; not in Adams

Salonika: (Solomon and Joseph Ya’avetz) 1567

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

Precise definitions of technical terms appearing in the Hebrew philosophical and scientific literature, particularly, Maimonides’ Guide to the Perplexed. In 1939, D.Z. Baneth and S.Z. Davidowitz published a critical edition of Pirkei HaHatzlacha with the Arabic original and Hebrew translation. It is the consensus among scholars today that the work has been erroneously attributed to Maimonides