Ta’alumoth Chochmah [collected Kabbalistic and theological essays]

DELMEDIGO, JOSEPH SOLOMON OF CRETE.

Basle (i.e. Hanau)

1629-31

FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one, complete with 4 title pages, 3 (of ?) folding charts (2 heavily taped and laid in at end)

Vinograd, Hanau 56 & 60; Roest, Anhang 1334

An important collection of treatises edited by Samuel Aschkenazi, including Elijah Delmedigo’s Bechinath Hada’ath - a re-working of Averroes’ Fasl al-Makl on the contradictory relationship between religious faith and philosophic reasoning. Elijah’s attack on the Kabbalah was refuted by his great-grandson Joseph Delmedigo in the part entitled Matzreph Lechachmah. For a detailed collation of all other parts (including the first apearance of various Epistles by Maimonides) see Prijs, Basle 320