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JUDAICA KABBALAH. Sefer Yetsira; id est, Liber Iezirah. 1642. Lacks plate.
(KABBALAH.) Sefer Yetsira; id est, Liber Iezirah. Hebrew text with Latin translation and commentary by Johann Stephan Rittangel. One engraving (of 2) depicting the Sefirot. [8], 208, [1] pages. 4to, old 1/4 vellum, worn; contents dampstained, worming in middle of volume somewhat affecting text, blank lower inner corner off title. Amsterdam: apud Joannem et Jodocum Janssonios, 1642
- Notes: first rittangel edition; the Hebrew original was first published in 1562. " . . . the earliest extant Hebrew text of systematic speculative thought . . . Sefer Yezirah is a compact discourse of cosmology and cosmogony . . . outstanding for its clearly mystical character"--EJ XVI, 782-83. Scholem, Bibliographia Kabbalistica 943; Fuks & Fuks-Mansfeld 196.
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