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CABALA -- Sefer Yetzirah. Mantua: Jacob Kohen of Gazolo, 1562.
4 (210 x 151mm). Collation: 1-224 232 24-274. Woodcut title border, text diagrams. (Lacking one diagram leaf and volvelles, light dampstain at upper margins.) Modern dark brown calf. Provenance: Samuel Archevolti (early title inscription).
EDITIO PRINCEPS of the 'Book of Creation', the oldest surviving cabalistic text. It 'had greater influence on the development of the Jewish mind than almost any other book after the completion of the Talmud' (Jewish Encyclopedia). A translation into Latin by Guillaume Postel was printed at Paris in 1552. Vinograd, Thesaurus, p.463, Mantua no. 86.
4 (210 x 151mm). Collation: 1-224 232 24-274. Woodcut title border, text diagrams. (Lacking one diagram leaf and volvelles, light dampstain at upper margins.) Modern dark brown calf. Provenance: Samuel Archevolti (early title inscription).
EDITIO PRINCEPS of the 'Book of Creation', the oldest surviving cabalistic text. It 'had greater influence on the development of the Jewish mind than almost any other book after the completion of the Talmud' (Jewish Encyclopedia). A translation into Latin by Guillaume Postel was printed at Paris in 1552. Vinograd, Thesaurus, p.463, Mantua no. 86.