Sha’arei Orah

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $900

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

author

GIKATILLA, JOSEPH

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(Jacob Marcaria the Physician)

Place

Riva di Trento

Publication

1561

Description

FIRST EDITION. Initial letters of title within decorative vignettes, initial word of text within historiated woodcut frame

references

Vinograd, Riva 34; Mehlman 1057; Adams G-609

summary

Joseph Gikatilla (Chiquatilla) (1248-c.1325) was a disciple of the founder of the School of “Prophetic Kabbalah,” Abraham Abulafia and close colleague of Moses de Leon of Guadalajara. Throughout the centuries, Sha’arei Orah, has been a first-rate guide to the systematic presentation of the “Sephiroth” (Divine emanations) and their code names. Indeed R. Chaim of Volozhin recommended it to his students as an important introduction to the arcane wisdom of Kabbalah.

ff. 84. Wormed and stained, extreme upper left corner of title cut not affecting text, stained. Modern calf. Sm. 4to

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