Selections from The Valmadonna Trust Library: Highly Important Hebrew Printed Books
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LOT 191:
SHALOM, ABRAHAM BEN ISAAC
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Neveh Shalom [philosophy].
FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch. Marginalia.
A wide-margined copy. ff. 194. Opening and closing leaves remargined, stained in places. Modern blind-tooled paneled calf. 4to. Vinograd, Const. 162.
Eliezer ben Gershom Soncino, Constantinople: 1538.
The present work is a series of homilies on various Aggadic passages from the Talmud, interwoven with philosophical discussions seeking to serve as a defense of Maimonides’ reconciliation of Greek and Jewish philosophy. The author (d. 1492) was one of the last representatives of the Spanish-Jewish philosophic tradition and possessed a thorough command of the fields of knowledge of his time, his work here is rich in quotations from Greek and Arabic philosophical literature. See EJ, Vol. XIV, cols. 1270-1.
