Sefer me'or 'enayim.
Mantova: [no name], 1574. 188 ff. Title contained in an elegant architectonic frame. A few woodcuts, including one illustrating four crowns to f.156r, and a couple diagrams of symbols to f.171r-v. Red morocco, gilt title to spine. Condition: f.8 with old restoration in two places with the affected text added in manuscript, small hole to the same, some spots, foxing and browning. Provenance: contemporary marginalia in Latin, and later Hebrew marginalia; “From the library of Max Septimus” (stamp to title and recto of last leaf). First edition, first issue, with the mahaduroth corrections found in most copies. Azaria de’ Rossi is considered one of the most important 16th-century scholars of Judaism; his Me’or ‘enayim (“Light of the Eyes”) may be regarded as the first Jewish work of modern historiography. De’ Rossi, who traced his lineage to one of the oldest and most important Jewish-Italian families, was a Mantovan doctor and rabbi. His heretical ideas on chronology attracted much criticism from traditionalist rabbinical authorities of the time, so much so that he was forced to publish a reprinting of the present title the same year with numerous corrections and a note of apology at the end. The Me’or ‘enayim constructs a Jewish history from a number of testimonies, including foreign. The third part of the work analyzes Jewish antiquity by comparing Hebrew texts and classical works. Vinograd, Mantua 138; Mehlman 1327.
Sefer me'or 'enayim.
Mantova: [no name], 1574. 188 ff. Title contained in an elegant architectonic frame. A few woodcuts, including one illustrating four crowns to f.156r, and a couple diagrams of symbols to f.171r-v. Red morocco, gilt title to spine. Condition: f.8 with old restoration in two places with the affected text added in manuscript, small hole to the same, some spots, foxing and browning. Provenance: contemporary marginalia in Latin, and later Hebrew marginalia; “From the library of Max Septimus” (stamp to title and recto of last leaf). First edition, first issue, with the mahaduroth corrections found in most copies. Azaria de’ Rossi is considered one of the most important 16th-century scholars of Judaism; his Me’or ‘enayim (“Light of the Eyes”) may be regarded as the first Jewish work of modern historiography. De’ Rossi, who traced his lineage to one of the oldest and most important Jewish-Italian families, was a Mantovan doctor and rabbi. His heretical ideas on chronology attracted much criticism from traditionalist rabbinical authorities of the time, so much so that he was forced to publish a reprinting of the present title the same year with numerous corrections and a note of apology at the end. The Me’or ‘enayim constructs a Jewish history from a number of testimonies, including foreign. The third part of the work analyzes Jewish antiquity by comparing Hebrew texts and classical works. Vinograd, Mantua 138; Mehlman 1327.
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