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Meir ben Isaac Arama. Me'ir Iyyov (a commentary on Job, with text).
Venice, Georgio Cavalli, 1567, 18,9 x 14.2 cm.
124 misnumbered leaves, gathered in 31 signed quires of 4 leaves, quires 8 and 11 internally misbound, printed on thick and thin paper, title soiled, printer's mark on title, 8 woodcut floral initials forming two first words, with owner's inscription and two library stamps, one small woodcut cartouche head-piece, first 4 quires somewhat loose, browning and staining, other minor flaws, front hinge weak, old blind-tooled pigskin, rubbed, sprinkled edges, ties missing, in general a very good copy.
Cowley 416; Zedner 135; Roest 209 + Anhang 2452; See esp.: Tauber, Kiryat-Sefer VI, p. 455-456; Sonne, Kiryat-Sefer VII, p. 168-169.
bound with:
Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla. Sha'arei Orah (kabbalistic work), with commentary by Mattathias Delacrut.
Cracow, Isaac ben Aaron Prostitz, 1600, 19 x 14.1 cm.
[116] leaves; first gathering = title + 2 leaves of hakdamah + first page of text marked at tail as 1/1 + 28 quires of four leaves, title within architectural border, stained, lower margin of title shaved (as usual), paper somewhat softish, one woodcut cartouche head-piece, with a woodcut tail-piece of a ram by a tree, staining and browning, some worming in inner blank margins, small wormhole in few leaves affecting single letters, free back endpaper with old presentation inscription, good copy.
Gikatilla's most influential kabbalistic work, a detailed explanation of kabbalistic symbolism and the designations of the ten Sefirot. See Enc. Judaica Vol. 7 col. 564; Cowley 331; Zedner 329; not in Roest; Yudlov, Mehlman Collection 1058.
See illustration of second work.
Venice, Georgio Cavalli, 1567, 18,9 x 14.2 cm.
124 misnumbered leaves, gathered in 31 signed quires of 4 leaves, quires 8 and 11 internally misbound, printed on thick and thin paper, title soiled, printer's mark on title, 8 woodcut floral initials forming two first words, with owner's inscription and two library stamps, one small woodcut cartouche head-piece, first 4 quires somewhat loose, browning and staining, other minor flaws, front hinge weak, old blind-tooled pigskin, rubbed, sprinkled edges, ties missing, in general a very good copy.
Cowley 416; Zedner 135; Roest 209 + Anhang 2452; See esp.: Tauber, Kiryat-Sefer VI, p. 455-456; Sonne, Kiryat-Sefer VII, p. 168-169.
bound with:
Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla. Sha'arei Orah (kabbalistic work), with commentary by Mattathias Delacrut.
Cracow, Isaac ben Aaron Prostitz, 1600, 19 x 14.1 cm.
[116] leaves; first gathering = title + 2 leaves of hakdamah + first page of text marked at tail as 1/1 + 28 quires of four leaves, title within architectural border, stained, lower margin of title shaved (as usual), paper somewhat softish, one woodcut cartouche head-piece, with a woodcut tail-piece of a ram by a tree, staining and browning, some worming in inner blank margins, small wormhole in few leaves affecting single letters, free back endpaper with old presentation inscription, good copy.
Gikatilla's most influential kabbalistic work, a detailed explanation of kabbalistic symbolism and the designations of the ten Sefirot. See Enc. Judaica Vol. 7 col. 564; Cowley 331; Zedner 329; not in Roest; Yudlov, Mehlman Collection 1058.
See illustration of second work.