[on cosmogony]. Anonymous (Attributed to Abraham the Patriach). With four commentaries attributed to Rabad, Ramban, Sa’adyah Gaon and R. Eleazar of Worms

AUCTION 36 | Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books & Manuscripts

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Lot 182
SEPHER YETZIRAH

[on cosmogony]. Anonymous (Attributed to Abraham the Patriach). With four commentaries attributed to Rabad, Ramban, Sa’adyah Gaon and R. Eleazar of Worms

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural arch. Numerous spherical charts and Kabbalistic diagrams. Lacking the rare additional illustrated leaf. Extensive Hebrew and Latin marginalia in old hands ff. 105. Title stained and repaired. Waterstained in places. f.4 lacking few words of text. f.36r. and f.40r. lightly ruled. Several leaves laid to size. Recent vellum over wooden boards. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Mantua 86; not in Adams

Mantua: Jacob ben Naphtali Hacohen 1562 (colophon)

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $900
“The earliest extant Hebrew text of systematic speculative thought” (Scholem)