[on cosmogony]. Anonymous (Attributed to Abraham the Patriach). With four commentaries attributed to Rabad, Ramban, Sa’adyah Gaon and R. Eleazar of Worms

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $900

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author

SEPHER YETZIRAH

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Jacob ben Naphtali Hacohen

Place

Mantua

Publication

1562 (colophon)

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural arch. Numerous spherical charts and Kabbalistic diagrams. Lacking the rare additional illustrated leaf. Extensive Hebrew and Latin marginalia in old hands

references

Vinograd, Mantua 86; not in Adams

summary

“The earliest extant Hebrew text of systematic speculative thought” (Scholem)

ff. 105. Title stained and repaired. Waterstained in places. f.4 lacking few words of text. f.36r. and f.40r. lightly ruled. Several leaves laid to size. Recent vellum over wooden boards. Sm. 4to

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