Bidspirit auction | GERSHON BEN SOLOMON OF ARLES.

GERSHON BEN SOLOMON OF ARLES. Sha’ar HaShamayim [“The Gate of Heaven” - encyclopedic work on natural science, mathematics and astronomy].  FIRST EDITION . Printer’s device in form of Menorah on title (Yaari, Printers’ Marks, no. 14). ff. 64. Some staining, small paper repair on title, censor's signature on final leaf. Recent linen boards. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 329. Venice, Meir Parenzo, 1547. Sha’ar HaShamayim, reflects the unique synthesis of Jewish and humanist learning for which that part of France was known. Beyond being the father of the celebrated Ralb’ag (Gersonides), little is known of the 13th-century author, Gershon ben Solomon who stemmed from the town of Arles in the Provence region of southern France. See M.J. Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book, pp. 338-39.