(“Hapenini”). Bechinath Olam ["Examination of the World": ethics]. With commentaries by Moses ibn Chabib and R. Joseph Frances plus addendum Bakashat HaMemin.

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BEDERSI, JEDAIAH BEN ABRAHAM

(“Hapenini”). Bechinath Olam ["Examination of the World": ethics]. With commentaries by Moses ibn Chabib and R. Joseph Frances plus addendum Bakashat HaMemin.

FIRST EDITION with commentary. Title within woodcut architectural arch surrounded by armaments. Wide-Margined Copy. Marginalia. ff. 122,13. Few stains and neat marginal repairs. Contemporary vellum, discolored. 4to Vinograd, Ferrara 6; Mehlman 968

Ferrara: Samuel Ibn Ascara (Zarfati) 1552

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,700

A profound poetic composition on the futility and vanity of the world and the inestimably greater benefits of intellectual and religious pursuits. The author finds consolation in Maimonides’ world of ideas, concluding that the greatest achievement for Man is to “perfect one’s understanding and immerse oneself in the grandeur of the idea of God. No power in the World can can break Man’s will when he strives toward this exalted goal.” The addendum Bakashat HaMemin is a poem in which every word begins with the letter "Mem." See EJ, Vol. IX, cols. 1308-1310.