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SEFER YETSIRA; id est, Liber Iezirah.
Hebrew text with Latin translation and commentary by Johann Stephan Rittangel. 2 full-page engraved diagrams of the Sefirot (with light dampstain in outer margins). [8], 208, [1] pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, spine darkened; small piece excised from top of front free endpaper. 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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