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(PHILOSOPHY). Goren Nachon. FIRST EDITION. The diagrams on f. 6 and 8 illustrate groupings of the basic characteristics of human nature. ff. 17, 28, mispaginated though all complete. Few leaves browned. Recent boards. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Riva di Trento 37, 39, 40. Riva di Trento (Joseph Ashkenazi of Padua), 1562. Goren Nachon is a collection of three classic philosophic works all translated from the original Arabic into Hebrew: Shlomo ibn Gabirol’s Tikun Midoth HaNephesh; Ibn Ishak’s Musarei HaPhilosophim; and Sepher HaTapu’ach, attributed to Aristotle. Ibn Gabirol was translated by Judah ibn Tibbon; Ibn Ishak by Judah al-Harizi; and pseudo-Aristotle by Abraham b. Chasdai Halevi.   The editor, Joseph Aschkenazi of Padua, added subject headings and names of scholars cited in each paragraph (noted alongside the margins).   See M. Waxman, A History of Jewish Literature, Vol. I, pp. 355-58.