Neveh Shalom. With an introduction by Moses Almosnino.

SHALOM, ABRAHAM BEN ISAAC

Eliezer ben Gershom Soncino

Constantinople

1539

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectual arch. Marginalia.

Vinograd, Const. 162; Yaari, Const. 127 (Vinograd and Yaari record only ff.194)

The philosopher Abraham ben Isaac Shalom (d. 1492) is one of the last representatives of the Spanish-Jewish philosophic tradition. His book is a series of homilies on various aggadic passages from the Talmud, interwoven with a philosophical discussion meant to serve as a defense of Maimonides’ reconciliation of Greek philosophy and Jewish thought. The author had a thorough command of the fields of knowledge of his time and his work is rich in quotations from Greek and Arabic philosophical literature. See EJ, Vol. XIV, cols. 1270-1. According to Yaari, there are 24 signatures of 8 leaves each, with an additional 2 leaves at the end of the book, for a total of ff. 194. However, in our copy, signature 12 has ten leaves, for a total of ff. 196.