SEPHER YETZIRAH [on cosmogony and thaumaturgy]

Estimate: $6,000–$8,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

Anonymous (Attributed to Abraham the Patriach).

printer

G. Postel in Scholis Italorum

Place

Paris

Publication

1552

Description

FIRST EDITION. Prepared by GUILLAUME POSTEL with his mystical comments.

references

Adams S-946; G. Scholem, Bibliographia Kabbalistica (1933) no.918; Steinschneider, Cat. Bod. no.3573

summary

“The earliest extant Hebrew text of systematic speculative thought” (Scholem). This Latin edition of the Sepher Yetzirah - translated from the Hebrew by the French Orientalist Guillaume Postel - preceded the first Hebrew edition by a full ten years.

ff.(60), remnants of paper label on title page, stamp on verso, title lightly discolored, minute worm-hole through outer margin of several ff., new endpapers, contemporary vellum, backstrip removed, 16mo

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