(“Rabbeinu Yonah”). Sha’arei Teshuvah [“The Gates of Repentance”: ethics]. * Appended: Sepher HaYir'ah [practical guide to religious observance]

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author

GERONDI, JONAH.

printer

Isaac ben Aaron Prostitz

Place

Cracow

Publication

1581

Description

Fourth Edition. Title within woodcut wreathed columns. On title, Hebrew signature of former owner "Jacob ben Joseph of the City of Bing"

references

Vinograd, Cracow 74; Adams J-311

summary

Rabbeinu Yonah’s famous treatise on Repentance is the earliest work of ethical literature. See M. Waxman, A History of Jewish Literature, Vol. II, pp. 273-274.

ff. 44. Few stains and old underscoring. Later mottled calf, rubbed. Sm. 4to

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