/ RaMBa”N). Torath Ha’Adam [laws concerning the sick and dying, and the Afterlife]

MOSES BEN NACHMAN (NACHMANIDES.

Giovanni di Gara

Venice

1595

Second edition. Signed S. Montagila on title.

Vinograd, Venice 815; Habermann, di Gara 158; Adams M-1874

With a laudatory poem by Judah Aryeh (Leon de) Modena on f.2. The verso of the final leaf, contains the famed historical letter penned by Nachmanides to his son, describing the destitute condition of Eretz Israel following the invasion of the Tatar hordes in 1260. Nachmanides sums up the dismal state of affairs by stating: “An underlying principle is, the more holy the place, the more desolate. Jerusalem is more desolate than the rest of the Land, and Judah more desolate than the Galilee.”