Bidspirit auction | BACHIAH BEN ASHER.

BACHIAH BEN ASHER. - Shulchan (shel) Arba [on proper conduct at the table, benedictions, the Banquet in the World to Come and resurrection of the dead] Third edition. Printer’s device on title (Yaari, Hebrew Printer’s Marks no. 16). Censor’s signature at end (dated 1601), with his ink deletions in places. ff. 11. Touch stained. Bound in Valmadonna-custom chestnut morocco, spine in compartments, titled on spine in gilt. Housed in fitted slip-case. Folio. Vinograd, Venice 296. Venice: Cornelio Adelkind for Marco Antonio Giustiniani 1545 Extensive research into Rabbeinu Bachiah’s rabbinic approach and thought was undertaken by Ephraim Gottlieb: The Kabbalah in the Writings of R. Bahya ben Asher (Jerusalem, 1970).