CORDOVERO, MOSES (RaMa”K). Tomer Devorah [“The Palm Tree of Deborah.”]

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Lot 143

(KABBALAH).

CORDOVERO, MOSES (RaMa”K). Tomer Devorah [“The Palm Tree of Deborah.”]

Title within decorative woodcut border. The Mayer Sulzberger copy. ff.19. Light stain on title. Later boards. 12mo Vinograd, Mantua 213

Mantua: Judah Samuel of Perugia 1623

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $700

Cordovero here laid the foundations for Kabbalistic ethical literature which proliferated in the 16th-18th centuries. Kabbalistic moralists were greatly influenced by this short treatise, each chapter of which provides instruction how to directly identify with each of the Ten Sefiroth.