Goren Nachon / Tikun Midoth ha-Nephesh. With: Alcharizi, Judah, trans. Musarei ha-Pilosophim. * (Aristotle). Abraham Halevi bar Chasdai, trans. Sepher ha-Tapu’ach. [Philosophy]

GABIROL, SOLOMON IBN.

Abraham Brisach

Lunéville

1807

Title within typographic border. Broad margins

Vinograd, Luneville 19, 21-22

The Jews were expelled from Lunéville, as well as from the rest of Lorraine (NE France) in the fifteenth century. It was not until 1753 that Jews were once again permitted to reside in the town. By 1808, the Jewish community numbered 315 persons. Abraham Brisach printed several Hebrew books in Lunéville between the years 1796-1809. This collection of medieval philosophic works comes with the approbation of the Rabbi of Lunéville, Liberman Worms. Goren Nachon is a collection of three classic philosophic works: ibn Gabirol’s Tikun Midoth HaNephesh; ibn Ishak’s Musarei ha-Philosophim; and Sepher ha-Tapu’ach, attributed to Aristotle. All three works were translated from Arabic. Ibn Gabirol was translated by Judah ibn Tibbon; Bin Ishak by Judah al-Harizi, and pseudo-Aristotle by Abraham b. Chasdai Halevi. The editor Joseph Ashkenazi of Padua added subject headings and names of scholars cited in each paragraph (printed on the margins). See Waxman, A History of Jewish Literature, Vol. I, pp. 355-358; EJ, Vol. II, cols. 628-629; VII, cols. 236, 238, 243.