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

AUCTION 48 | Thursday, May 27th, 2010 at 1:00

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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) ff. 64. Title semi-detached, stains. Recent wooden boards, starting. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Venice 329

Venice: Meir Parenzo 1547

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $900

Little is known of this 13th-century author. His Sha’ar HaShamayim reflects the unique synthesis of Jewish and secular learning for which the intelligentsia of Provence were renowned. See M.J. Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book, Vol. I, pp. 338-39.