(KABBALAH).

AUCTION 63 |
Thursday, November 13th,
2014 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art
Lot 163
(KABBALAH).
Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius 1642
Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $700
A Latin translation of the Sepher Yetzirah by the Christian mystic Wilhelm Postel was printed in Paris in 1552, a full decade before the first Hebrew edition (Mantua, 1562). Scholem presents this translation by Rittangel as the second Latin edition. See Scholem, Kabbalah pp. 29-30; Scholem, Bibliographia Kabbalistica 918.
According to Fuks (196), this work is the first example of rabbinic cursive type used in Amsterdam printing.