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BEDERSI, JEDAIAH HA-PENINI BEN ABRAHAM. Bechinat Olam (Contemplation of the World) with an anonymous commentary (after the Soncino edition of 1484), and Bakkashat ha-Lamedin (the Lamed Prayer) [a prayer composed of 412 words in which only the letters from Alef to Lamed occur].
Mantua: Jacob ben Naphtali ha-Kohen of Gazolo, 1556.
[44] leaves.
8vo, 147 x 95 mm. (5 7/8 x 3¾ in.) modern quarter vellum; some dampstaining, fore-margin corners worn.
Vinograd, Mantua 30; Steinschneider 5670,5; Cowley 311; Zedner 314; Yudlov Ginzei Yisrael 969; Wiener 1105; not in Roest.
Sefer Bechinat Olam is the best-known literary work of Bedersi. It is a lyrical, ethical monograph on the theme of the futility and vanity of this world, and inestimably benifits of intellectual and religious pursuits. Published for the first time in Mantua between 1476 and 1480, the work has been reprinted at least 70 times with and without commentaries, including translations into several European languages. (See: Enc. Judaica vol.9 colms 1308-1310).
Mantua: Jacob ben Naphtali ha-Kohen of Gazolo, 1556.
[44] leaves.
8vo, 147 x 95 mm. (5 7/8 x 3¾ in.) modern quarter vellum; some dampstaining, fore-margin corners worn.
Vinograd, Mantua 30; Steinschneider 5670,5; Cowley 311; Zedner 314; Yudlov Ginzei Yisrael 969; Wiener 1105; not in Roest.
Sefer Bechinat Olam is the best-known literary work of Bedersi. It is a lyrical, ethical monograph on the theme of the futility and vanity of this world, and inestimably benifits of intellectual and religious pursuits. Published for the first time in Mantua between 1476 and 1480, the work has been reprinted at least 70 times with and without commentaries, including translations into several European languages. (See: Enc. Judaica vol.9 colms 1308-1310).