(MaHaRa’L of Prague). Chibur Nethivoth Olam [ethical thought].

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: $4,600

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author

LOEWE, JUDAH

printer

Gershom ben Bezalel Katz

Place

Prague

Publication

1595

Description

FIRST EDITION.

references

Vinograd, Prague 81.

summary

The most concentrated treatment of the Mahaharal’s perspective to matters of ethical morality. For a detailed analysis of the ethical thought found in Nethivoth Olam, see M. Fox, The Moral Philosophy of MaHaRa’L, in: Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century (1983) pp. 167-85.

ff. 131 (i.e. 132). Ex-library, foxed and browned. Modern blind-tooled calf. Folio.

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