Goren Nachon / Tikun Midoth HaNephesh. With: Alcharizi, Judah ( trans). Musarei HaPilosophim. * (Aristotle). Abraham Halevi bar Chasdai (trans). Sepher HaTapu’ach [philosophy]. With approbation of Liberman Worms, Rabbi of Lunéville.

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Goren Nachon / Tikun Midoth HaNephesh. With: Alcharizi, Judah ( trans). Musarei HaPilosophim. * (Aristotle). Abraham Halevi bar Chasdai (trans). Sepher HaTapu’ach [philosophy]. With approbation of Liberman Worms, Rabbi of Lunéville.

Wide margins. ff.20, 4, 4-27, 4, (2). Former owners’ inscriptions on title, browned. Contemporary half-calf marbled boards. 4to Vinograd, Lunéville 19, 21-22

Lunéville: Abraham Briseqcue 1807

Est: $300 - $400

In the 15th-century the Jews were expelled from Lunéville - as they were from all of Lorraine, North-Eastern France). It was not until 1753 that Jews were once again permitted to reside in the town, By 1808, the Jewish community of Lunéville numbered just 315 persons - yet remarkably the town hosted two Jewish presses. See EJ, Vol. XI, cols. 567-8.