Scaron;a'ar Hagemul.
Ferrara: Avraham ibn Usque, 1556. 4to (209 x 137 mm). 26 ff. Frontispiece of an architectonic frame on a black background, surrounding printer’s mark of armillary sphere, a scroll with verse from the Book of Psalms (130, 5) around the base. Same printer’s mark to verso of last leaf. Speckled calf tooled in blind. Condition: title restored at fore-edge and tipped-in, mild worming to title and upper margin of all but final three leaves not affecting headline. Third edition of an eschatological work concerning Torat ha-Adam (“The Law of Man”), a monograph dedicated to burial laws. The Ša’ar Hagemul (“Gate of Justice”) confronts the complex concept of life after death; the author departs from conventional thinking based on the theories of Maimonides, and suggests, in a vain similar to Christian thought, that souls are reunited with their bodies after the Final Judgment. The final leaf contains the author’s famous letter addressed to his son in Jerusalem describing life in Israel after the Tartar invasion in 1260. Nachmanides, the Spanish cabbalist and talmudist, is also known by his Spanish name Bonastruc de Porta, and an acronym, Ramban. He was accused of blasphemy during a religious dispute at Barcelona in 1263 and forced to leave Spain for Israel. Vinograd, Ferrara 45; Mehlman 1214. Not in Adams.
Scaron;a'ar Hagemul.
Ferrara: Avraham ibn Usque, 1556. 4to (209 x 137 mm). 26 ff. Frontispiece of an architectonic frame on a black background, surrounding printer’s mark of armillary sphere, a scroll with verse from the Book of Psalms (130, 5) around the base. Same printer’s mark to verso of last leaf. Speckled calf tooled in blind. Condition: title restored at fore-edge and tipped-in, mild worming to title and upper margin of all but final three leaves not affecting headline. Third edition of an eschatological work concerning Torat ha-Adam (“The Law of Man”), a monograph dedicated to burial laws. The Ša’ar Hagemul (“Gate of Justice”) confronts the complex concept of life after death; the author departs from conventional thinking based on the theories of Maimonides, and suggests, in a vain similar to Christian thought, that souls are reunited with their bodies after the Final Judgment. The final leaf contains the author’s famous letter addressed to his son in Jerusalem describing life in Israel after the Tartar invasion in 1260. Nachmanides, the Spanish cabbalist and talmudist, is also known by his Spanish name Bonastruc de Porta, and an acronym, Ramban. He was accused of blasphemy during a religious dispute at Barcelona in 1263 and forced to leave Spain for Israel. Vinograd, Ferrara 45; Mehlman 1214. Not in Adams.
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