PORTALEONE, ABRAHAM

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Shiltei Hagiborim [on the Second Temple]. FIRST EDITION. Four parts in one. Three divisional titles all within a decorative typographical border. ff. 12, 186. [Vinograd, Mantua 196]. Mantua, Vicenzo Gonzaga, 1612. * GIKATILLA, JOSEPH BEN ABRAHAM. Ginath Egoz [Kabbalah]. FIRST EDITION. Title printed in red and black and within elaborate historiated woodcut architectural border flanked by Moses and Aaron with vignette depicting the Binding of Isaac (cf. Haberman, Sha’arei Sepharim Ivri’im pl. 39). ff. 75 (i.e. 78). [Vinograd, Hanau 15]. Hanau, Eliezer ben Chaim Mechokek, 1615

First mentioned: An encyclopedic work on war, music, numismatics, weaponry, architecture - all discussed in order to elucidate the details of the Temple in Jerusalem. “Portaleone’s treatment is so discursive as to make the work a compendium of all branches of of science known in his day, in which all of the ten languages he knew were amply used.” EJ, XIII cols.908-9. See C. Roth, Jews in the Renaissance (1959) pp.315-9