Auction 15 · Lot 305

RaLBa”G). Pirush Chamesh Megiloth [commentary to the Five Scrolls]

Estimate: $800–$1,000
Hammer price: $1,400

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author

LEVI BEN GERSHOM (GERSONIDES/

printer

Jacob Marcaria the Physician

Place

Riva di Trento

Publication

1560

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes

references

Vinograd, Riva di Trento 23; not in Adams

summary

In his commentary to Koheleth, seeking the main Aristotelian theories of practical ethics, Gersonides finds that the work deals with the application of the principles of conduct and the particular means for obtaining the aims involved in them. He explains the contradictions in the work, by the fact that the author includes views with which he does not agree in order to afford one a choice of action. He interprets The Song of Songs entirely as an allegory of the soul. See M. Waxman, Vol. II pp.39-43

ff. 50. Stained in places, title rehinged, some leaves with neat marginal repairs, scattered marginal worming neatly repaired, scattered marginalia. Later vellum, gently rubbed at corners. Sm. 4to

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