Torah Ohr [the dogma of the Afterlife].

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $3,200

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author

JOSEPH IBN YACHYA.

printer

The Company of Silk-Weavers

Place

Bologna

Publication

1538

Description

FIRST EDITION. Opening word within ornamental woodcut border. On verso of title, pictographic introductory poem in the form of a Menorah. Wide-margined copy.

references

Vinograd, Bologna 13.

summary

Divided into 78 chapters, Torah Ohr focuses upon Jewish eschatology relying upon the Aggadic portions of the Talmud. A disciple of R. Judah Mintz in Padua, R. Yoseph ben David ibn Yachya (1494-1534) was born in Florence. The introduction to the present work provides biographical information concerning the flight of the well-to-do Don Yachya family from Lisbon, Portugal via Castille, to Tuscany.

ff. 36. Recent patterned boards. Sm.4to.

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