Ohr Amim [“Light of the Nations”]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,400

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

SFORNO, OBADIAH

printer

The Company of Silk Weavers

Place

Bologna

Publication

1537

Description

FIRST EDITION. A fine, unusually wide-margined copy

references

Vinograd, Bologna 8; Mehlman 1219

summary

Obadiah Sforno of Bologna (known in Latin as Salvadeus), (ca. 1470-ca. 1550), was a physician by profession. Primarily known for his commentaries to the Bible, he wrote this volume to refute the views of Aristotle which he held to be in contradiction with many of the fundamental principles of Judaism. The first of only nine books printed by the Jewish Silk Weaver’s Guild of Bologna. See Amram, The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy, pp. 232-35

ff. 64. Erasure on title, some staining on first leaves, otherwise a fine clean copy. Modern calf. Sm. 4to

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