Sepher Ikarim [philosophy].

ALBO, JOSEPH

Gershom Soncino

Rimini

1522

Prominent printers device on title (Ya’ari, Hebrew Printers’ Marks no. 6). Initial letters of opening word in white-on-black decorative vignettes surrounded by historiated engraved border-piece. Few marginal notes in an early hand.

Vinograd, Rimini 4; Mehlman 1191.

Albo’s Sepher Ikarim presented religious-philosophical problems in a form that was accessible and comprehensible to all. For a brief examination of Albo’s philosophies and the thinkers upon whose ideas he built, see I. Zinberg, A History of Jewish Literature, Vol. III (1974) pp. 233-39: “It is a popular work, permeated with the heartfelt accents of the inspired preacher.”