ABOAB, IMMANUEL. Nomologia o Discursos Legales

Estimate

$2,500–$3,000

Hammer price

Not recorded

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author

(SEPHARDIC LITERATURE)

printer

n.p.

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1629

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title with type-ornament border

references

Kayserling 2

summary

Born into a New Christian family in 1555, Aboab escaped to Italy where he professed the Jewish faith and became a protagonist of Judaism among the Marranos. The Nomologia, his principle work, is a defense of the validity and Divine origin of the Jewish tradition. “Displaying a wide knowledge of Talmud and Kabbalah as well as Latin and secular learning, [the work] includes much valuable historical information, especially about scholars who left Spain and Portugal after the Expulsion.” EJ, II cols.89-90

pp.(2),324,(10). Stamp removed from final page, lightly stained in places. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, lacking clasps, upper portion of backstrip defective. Sm.4to

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