Lekach Tov.

YAGEL, ABRAHAM BEN CHANANIAH, OF MONCELISE.

Giovanni di Gara

Venice

1595

FIRST EDITION. Dedication to Joseph Fano.

Vinograd, Venice 803; Habermann, di Gara 150

Rare catechism of religious guidance for youth. It is speculated that the author composed the work when tutoring the children of Joseph Fano, the politically powerful Jewish financier of Reggio nell'Emilia. See D.B. Ruderman, Kabbalah, Magic, and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician (1988), pp. 15,18. The marginalium on the verso of the title disputes Bartolocci's claim that Abraham Yagel adopted the name "Camillo Jaghel" and worked for the Church as a censor of Hebrew books. See Ruderman, pp. 165-68.