(“Rabbeinu Yonah”). Sha’arei Teshuvah [“The Gates of Repentance”: ethics]. * Appended: Sepher HaYir'ah [practical guide to religious observance]

AUCTION 46 | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 1:00

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GERONDI, JONAH.

(“Rabbeinu Yonah”). Sha’arei Teshuvah [“The Gates of Repentance”: ethics]. * Appended: Sepher HaYir'ah [practical guide to religious observance]

Fourth Edition. Title within woodcut wreathed columns. On title, Hebrew signature of former owner "Jacob ben Joseph of the City of Bing" ff. 44. Few stains and old underscoring. Later mottled calf, rubbed. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Cracow 74; Adams J-311

Cracow: Isaac ben Aaron Prostitz 1581

Est: $700 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $1,100

Rabbeinu Yonah’s famous treatise on Repentance is the earliest work of ethical literature. See M. Waxman, A History of Jewish Literature, Vol. II, pp. 273-274.