FANO, MENACHEM AZARIAH DA

Asarah Ma’amaroth [kabbalah]. With commentary “Yoel Moshe” by Moses ben Solomon Halevi of Frankfurt.
DELUXE COPY, PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER. Title within architectural arch. FIRST EDITION of commentary.
ff. 158. Few stains, several leaves laid to size, some loss on few initial leaves and the final leaf. Bound in Valmadonna-custom calf-backed marbled boards, spine in compartments and titled in gilt. 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 160.
Amsterdam: Judah ben Mordechai 1649
<< RARE, BIBLIOPHILIC EDITION. PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER.>>===See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Colored Paper no. 27.===The author (1548-1620) of a well-to-do banking family in Bologna, Italy, was initially a follower of the Cordoverian system of Kabbalah but afterward, under the influence of the elusive R. Israel Sarug, switched his allegiance to the Lurianic school. The propagation of Kabbalah emanating from Safed into Europe was largely due to R. Menachem’s prolific efforts.===See Robert Bonfil, New Information on Rabbi Menahem Azariah da Fano and his Age, in: Studies in the History of Jewish Society in the Middle Ages and in the Modern Period [Jacob Katz Festschrift] (1980) pp. 98-135.