Auction 7 · Lot 359

Ta’alomoth Chachmah [collected Kabbalistic and theological essays]. Part One “Bechinath Hada’ath” and Part Two “Novloth Chochmah”

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $1,500

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author

DELMEDIGO, JOSEPH SOLOMON OF CRETE.

printer

n.p

Place

Basle (ie. Hanau)

Publication

1629-1631

Description

FIRST EDITION. Three parts in two volumes. Three title pages within typographical borders

references

Vinograd, Hanau 56 & Basle 251a; Prijs 320; Vinograd, Hanau 60 & Basle 251b

summary

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

I: ff. (2), 10, 110. Browned, scattered worming to lower and outer margins. II: ff. (8) 208, (i.e. 207). Fold-out chart between ff.197-8. Two additional folding charts laid in at end. Browned. Moderm morocco-backed boards. 4to

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