Bidspirit auction | ALFALAS, MOSES

ALFALAS, MOSES - Ho’il Moshe [collected sermons].. FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch. ff. 139 (9). Trimmed, dampstained. Modern blind-tooled morocco. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 830. Daniel Zanetti, Venice: 1597. The late 16th-century preacher Moses Alfalas was a native of Tetuan, Spanish Morocco. A contemporary of the MaHaRa”L, R. Judah Löw of Prague, he too employed philosophical terms in his sermons, while giving them novel meaning.