Sepher ha-Gedarim...Michlal Yofi [“Book of Definitions”: lexicon of philosophical terms]. * Printed with (as issued): Pirkei HaHatzlacha [philosophic work] Attributed to Maimonides [Sic] ?

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: $4,000

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author

BONAFOS, MENACHEM BEN ABRAHAM OF PERPIGNAN

printer

(Solomon and Joseph Ya’avetz)

Place

Salonika

Publication

1567

Description

FIRST EDITION. Ya'avetz-style florets on title. Wide-margined copy

references

Vinograd, Salonika 71; Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book pp. 590-1; not in Adams

summary

Precise definitions of technical terms appearing in the Hebrew philosophical and scientific literature, particularly, Maimonides’ Guide to the Perplexed. In 1939, D.Z. Baneth and S.Z. Davidowitz published a critical edition of Pirkei HaHatzlacha with the Arabic original and Hebrew translation. It is the consensus among scholars today that the work has been erroneously attributed to Maimonides

ff.(50). Dampstained throughout. Modern gilt-tooled crushed morocco. 4to

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