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BARGAS, ABRAHAM DE. Pensamientos sagrados y educaciones morales.
Florencia: Isaac di Moisè de Pas, 1749.
127 leaves.
8vo, 160 x 105 mm. (6¼ x 4 1/8 in.), rebound in modern leather, spine gilt-lettered, some staining and browning.
FIRST EDITION. Not in Kayserling, Steinschneider or in Friedenwald.
Homiletical discourses on Pentateuch and Prophets, a typical genre developed by Spanish and Portuguese Jews. It reflects the influence of Iberian ethical (non-Jewish) literature and was intended for the Jewish reeducation of the former conversos or "New Christians."
The author, Abraham de Bargas (c. 1740), was a Jewish physician of Spanish converso origin. After leaving Spain, Bargas settled first in France, where he was personal physician to the Duke of Gramot, and later in Italy, where he became the physician to the Leghorn Jewish community (See: Encyclopaedia Judaica vol. 4, col. 220).
Florencia: Isaac di Moisè de Pas, 1749.
127 leaves.
8vo, 160 x 105 mm. (6¼ x 4 1/8 in.), rebound in modern leather, spine gilt-lettered, some staining and browning.
FIRST EDITION. Not in Kayserling, Steinschneider or in Friedenwald.
Homiletical discourses on Pentateuch and Prophets, a typical genre developed by Spanish and Portuguese Jews. It reflects the influence of Iberian ethical (non-Jewish) literature and was intended for the Jewish reeducation of the former conversos or "New Christians."
The author, Abraham de Bargas (c. 1740), was a Jewish physician of Spanish converso origin. After leaving Spain, Bargas settled first in France, where he was personal physician to the Duke of Gramot, and later in Italy, where he became the physician to the Leghorn Jewish community (See: Encyclopaedia Judaica vol. 4, col. 220).