Shulchan Kesseph [philosophical treatise on prophecy an miracles]

IBN CASPI, JOSEPH BEN ABBA MARI.

Spain

c. 1420

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in cursive Sephardic medieval hand on paper. Wide margins. * Accompanied by description of manuscript contents prepared by Dr. Shlomo Zucker, Jerusalem.

IMPORTANT MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHICAL WORK composed by one of the leading Sephardic Hebrew philosophers of the early period. R. Joseph ben Abba Mari ibn Kaspi (1279-1340) was a Provinçal exegete, grammarian, and philosopher, much influenced by Averroes. Well traveled, ibn Caspi journeyed through Spain and Egypt, however he also underwent much suffering at the time of the Pastoureaux persecutions. He wrote several treatises on grammar and the Bible as well as other philosophical works, many left unpublished. A critical edition of the present manuscript was issued by Machon Ben-Zvi in 1996.