Sha’ar HaShamayim [“The Gate of Heaven”: encyclopedic work on natural science, mathematics and astronomy]

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

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Lot 124

GERSHON BEN SOLOMON OF ARLES

Sha’ar HaShamayim [“The Gate of Heaven”: encyclopedic work on natural science, mathematics and astronomy]

First Edition. Printer’s device on title (Yaari, Hebrew Printers’ Marks 14). Extensive scholarly marginalia in recent hand. ff. 64. ff.61-64 bound out of sequence, though all complete. Few stains, f.63 silked. Recent boards. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Venice 329; Adams G-500

Venice: Meir Parenzo 1547

Est: $700 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $650

Little is known of the 13th-century author, Gershon ben Solomon of Arles, Provence. His Sha’ar HaShamayim reflects the unique synthesis of Jewish and secular learning for which the rabbinic leaders of Provence were reknowned. See M. J. Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Boook, Vol. I, pp. 338-39.