Avodath Hakodesh [kabbalah]
AUCTION 31 |
Tuesday, December 13th,
2005 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew and Other Printed Books
Lot 171
IBN GABBAI, MEIR
Avodath Hakodesh [kabbalah]
Cracow: Yitzchak ben Aaon of Prostitz 1576 -77
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,600
“Avodath Hakodesh 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 edition of the work was entitled Maroth Elokim, thereafter all subsequent editions were known as Avodath Hakodesh. According to Yaari the printer’s mark depicting a deer was used in honor of the publisher Tzvi ben Ha-kadosh Yitzchak of Austria who was on his way to the “Eretz Ha-Tzvi,” the Land of Israel. Prostitz later used a different printer’s mark.