(Attributed to). Iggereth Ha’mussar [“Ethical Letter” -philosophy]. Translated into Hebrew by JUDAH BEN SOLOMON CHARIZI

ARISTOTLE

(Jacob Marcaria)

Riva di Trento

1560

FIRST EDITION

Vinograd, Riva 14; not in Adams

Jews came to be familiar with the writings of Aristotle, throguh the Arabic translations of his writings. Indeed, Iggereth Ha’mussar ("Ethical Letter"), ascribed to Aristotle was translated by Charizi from the Arabic found among the ethical epistles of the physician Ali ibn Rodhwan. As the Jews possessed an abundance of practical rules in their own religious texts, Aristotle’s ethical writtings were superfluous. However, thinkers such as Saadia Ga’on, ibn Gabirol, Levi ben Gerson and Maimonides increasingly put store to his approach