Ohr Amim [“Light of the Nations”]

AUCTION 47 | Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 260

SFORNO, OBADIAH

Ohr Amim [“Light of the Nations”]

FIRST EDITION. A fine, unusually wide-margined copy ff. 64. Erasure on title, some staining on first leaves, otherwise a fine clean copy. Modern calf. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Bologna 8; Mehlman 1219

Bologna: The Company of Silk Weavers 1537

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,400

Obadiah Sforno of Bologna (known in Latin as Salvadeus), (ca. 1470-ca. 1550), was a physician by profession. Primarily known for his commentaries to the Bible, he wrote this volume to refute the views of Aristotle which he held to be in contradiction with many of the fundamental principles of Judaism. The first of only nine books printed by the Jewish Silk Weaver’s Guild of Bologna. See Amram, The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy, pp. 232-35