/ RaMBa”N). Torath ha’Adam [laws concerning the sick and dying, and the Afterlife]

AUCTION 30 | Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 275
MOSES BEN NACHMAN (NACHMANIDES.

/ RaMBa”N). Torath ha’Adam [laws concerning the sick and dying, and the Afterlife]

Second edition. Printer’s device on title. Double columns ff.108. f.12 supplied in manuscript. Stained. Modern boards. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Venice 815; Habermann, di Gara 158; Adams M-1874

Venice: Giovanni di Gara 1595

Est: $300 - $400
With a laudatory poem by Judah Aryeh (Leon de) Modena on f.2. The verso of the final leaf, contains the famed historical letter penned by Nachmanides to his son, describing the destitute condition of Eretz Israel following the invasion of the Tatar hordes in 1260. Nachmanides sums up the dismal state of affairs by stating: “An underlying principle is, the more holy the place, the more desolate. Jerusalem is more desolate than the rest of the Land, and Judah more desolate than the Galilee”