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GALATINO, PIETRO; and REUCHLIN, JOHANNES. De arcanis Catholicae veritatis . . . De arte cabalistica . . . De verbo mirifico. 1561

GALATINO, PIETRO; and REUCHLIN, JOHANNES. De arcanis Catholicae veritatis; hoc est, In omnia difficilia loca Veteris Testamenti, ex Talmud, aliisq[ue] Hebraicis libris . . . contra obstinatam Judaeorum perfidiam, absolutissimus commentarius. Ad haec, Joannis Reuchlini . . . De arte cabalistica, libri tres. Item, libri tres de verbo mirifico. [20], 551, [3]; [2], [551]-651, [41] pages, including Z6 and 2M6 with printer's device. Extensive passages in Hebrew and Aramaic. Folio, 326x213 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches, lacking clasps; occasional toning, light marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, scattered marginalia and underscoring, title lightly soiled with 2 minor ink stains, 17th-/18th-century ownership inscriptions of Antonius d'Attrin of Luxemburg and 2 descendants of the same name, and St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp, accession number on next leaf. Basel: Johann Herwagen, 1561

  • Notes: Third edition of an anti-Jewish work originally published in 1518 in which Galatino sought to find proof of Christian doctrines in Jewish sources. This is the second edition to reprint Reuchlin's 1517 De arte cabalistica and 1494 De verbo mirifico, his major writings on Christian Kabbalah. Scholem, Bibliotheca Kabbalistica 401.

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