Shulchan Kesseph [philosophical treatise on prophecy an miracles]

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00

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IBN CASPI, JOSEPH BEN ABBA MARI.

Shulchan Kesseph [philosophical treatise on prophecy an miracles]

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in cursive Sephardic medieval hand on paper. Wide margins. <<*>> Accompanied by description of manuscript contents prepared by Dr. Shlomo Zucker, Jerusalem. ff. 13. Upper corner of first leaf removed. Modern calf-backed marbled boards. 8vo.

Spain: c. 1420

Est: $8,000 - $12,000

<<IMPORTANT MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHICAL WORK>> composed by one of the leading Sephardic Hebrew philosophers of the early period. R. Joseph ben Abba Mari ibn Kaspi (1279-1340) was a Provincal exegete, grammarian, and philosopher, much influenced by Averroes. Well traveled, he journeyed through Spain and Egypt, however he also underwent much suffering at the time of the Pastoureaux persecutions. He wrote several treatises on grammar and the Bible as well as other philosophical works, many left unpublished. A critical edition of the present manuscript was issued by Machon Ben-Zvi in 1996.