Segunda parte del Conciliador, o De la conviniencia de los lugares de la S. Escriptura, que repugnantes entre si parecen

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Fine Judaica: Hebrew and Other Printed Books

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Lot 241

MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL

Segunda parte del Conciliador, o De la conviniencia de los lugares de la S. Escriptura, que repugnantes entre si parecen

First edition of Volume II. Spanish text. On title, printer's mark of Menaseh ben Israel (Yaari, no. 58). Initial letter richly historiated. pp. (16), 1-86, 89-195, (21). Slightly browned and wormed. Contemporary calf. 8vo Kayserling, p. 69; Treasures from the Library Ets Haim / Livraria Montezinos (1980), no. 87

Amsterdam: Nicolaus de Ravesteyn 1641

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $500

Menasseh’s magnum opus, the Conciliador, assured its author a place of prominence within Amsterdam’s Jewish community. Written with a Marrano readership in mind, this work presents an insight into Rabbinic Judaism by reconciling seeming discordant passages in the Bible. Ultimately a four-volume work, the third and fourth volumes of the Conciliador were printed in 1650-51. The first volume appeared in 1632