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Nevah Shalom, R. Abraham b. Isaac Shalom, Venice 1574

נוה שלום

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  • Lot Number 46468
  • Title (English) Nevah Shalom
  • Title (Hebrew) נוה שלום
  • Author R. Abraham b. Isaac Shalom
  • City Venice
  • Publisher Juan D'Gara
  • Publication Date 1574
  • Estimated Price - Low 800
  • Estimated Price - High 1,200

  • Item # 1292589
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Physical Description:

[4], 128, 131-193, [1], 193-208, 211-213 [i.e. 215], [15] ff., quarto, 208:148 mm., censored, crisp wide margins, usual light age and damp staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary half leather and marbled paper over boards, rubbed.

 

Detailed Description:   

Architectural woodcut title-border and a typographical cartouche. R. Abraham b. Isaac Shalom (died 1492) was a Spanish philosopher and translator of philosophical writings. Shalom's major work, Neveh Shalom, gives evidence of the author's thorough command of the fields of knowledge of his time, and is rich in quotations from Greek and Arabic philosophical literature. In its external form, Neveh Shalom is a series of homilies on various aggadic passages drawn from the Talmudic tractate Berakhot. Into this framework Shalom weaves a number of philosophic discussions, to consider just those views which are in harmony with Scripture, to decide which among them is correct, and, especially, to prove that 'Moses Maimonides is true and his teaching is true'. In other words, he undertakes to defend Maimonides' philosophy with its particular equilibrium between Greek philosophy and scriptural teachings.

 

Hebrew Description:    .

קולופון (דף [רטו,ב]): ותהי השלמתו ביום ה שמנה ימים לחדש תשרי ... בראש הספר (דף [3-2]): הקדמה, ובסופה שני שירים, מאת ר' מאיר ב"ר אשר, ששמו מרומז בסי' של השיר הראשון: מאיר בן רבינו אשר זצ"ל. השיר פותח: מקום שאין בו חנינת גלגל וזמנים לא נתראות. אוצר השירה והפיוט, ג, עמ' 172, מס' 2224. השיר השני פותח: נפשי בהוד שבחי אספר לאחי בתוך עדתי. שם, עמ' 218, מס' 484. על-פי קושטאנטינה רצ"ח-רצ"ט, עם המפתחות שבאו שם. נשמטו הקדמות ר' משה אלמושנינו ור' משה ן' חביב ושירו של האחרון.

 

References:   

Vinograd, Venice 607; Habermann-Yudlov, diGara 37; CD-NLI 0180813