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NIETO, DAVID. Matteh Dan y Segunda parte del Cuzari. Donde se prueva... la Verdad de la Ley Mental, recibida por nuestros Sabios Autores de la

NIETO, DAVID. Matteh Dan y Segunda parte del Cuzari. Donde se prueva... la Verdad de la Ley Mental, recibida por nuestros Sabios Autores de la Misnàh, y Guemarà.

Hebrew and Spanish titles and text. Titles within engraved historiated architectural borders. [10], 254 leaves. 4to, later 18th-century diced russia, joints, raised bands, and spine ends rubbed. London: Thomas Ilive, 5474 [1714]

  • Notes: first edition. Nieto (1654-1728) was a philosopher and haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in London. "Matteh Dan (1714), his magnum opus, devoted to a defense of the Oral Law against the attacks of ex-Marranos to whom the rabbinic tradition was both novel and unacceptable, has frequently been reprinted as a defense of rabbinic Judaism"--EJ XII, 1152. Palau 191134; Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, page 336.

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