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Verlag: Dominicus a Sande, Frankfurt am Main, 1716
Anbieter: Meiwes, Stuttgart, Deutschland
8°, 17 cm, (48) , 976 pp., extensive indices, advice to the bookbinder; fine contemporary vellum binding. To this edition an additional preface by Hotttinger, and a preface by Wits, taken from the Dutch edition. Engraved frontispiece, showing ritual and cultist scenes, fine copper engraved double page map of the Holy Land, with a cartouche. There are additions in numerous elaborate extensive foot notes of Joh.Heinricus Hottinger (1620-1667), the learned Swiss Hebraist, furnishing new material, especially on the Jewish sects, on which topic Hottinger was an outstanding specialist. The work embraces all aspects of religious and social life of the Jewish people in Antiquity, based on amazingly rich source material.The main sources are quoted verbatim. A comparative method prevails. Hottinger was deeply interested in mystical-Cabbalistical currents, so he can inform the reader about the theoretical and practical Cabbala, about the Gilgul theory, the transmigration of Souls; about Cabbalistical methods of interpretation:Notarikon, Gematria and Temura. His information on the Lurianic Cabbala is most accurate. Hottinger, a contemporary of Spinoza, travelled widely, and reports also some rare differences between the Ashkenazi and the Sephardi Jews, relating customs. At the time of the 'Messianistic' Sabbatian movement, he collected documents about this religious mass movement. On Hottinger's interest in mysticism cf. Scholem's Sabbatai Zebi.Fürst I. 339. Roth 345. A fine copy.
Verlag: Dominicus a Sande, Frankfurt a. M., 1716
Anbieter: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: g- to g+. Second edition. Octavo. [48]pp (Prefaces and Index), 976, [45]pp (Index). Contemporary full calf with raised bands. Green speckled edges. Frontispiece illustration of Moses and Aaron surrounded by a number of pictures including that of the Molech idol, a wedding and the sighting of the new moon. Title-page with red and black lettering. This second edition has an additional preface by Hotttinger, and a preface by Wits, taken from the Dutch edition. Decorative head-, tailpieces, and initials. Fine copper engraved double page map of the Holy Land, with a cartouche. This Christian Hebraist work on Jewish practices covers biblical and second Temple Judaism, biblical idolatrous cults, holidays such as Purim and Passover, and rituals such as circumcision, marriage, punishment and burial. Includes Index in the back. This work is an example of the seventeenth century Christian Hebraist study not just of biblical and rabbinic texts, but of contemporary Jewish life, the best known of which was Johann Buxtorf's "Jewish Synagogue" (1603). Text mostly in Latin with some Hebrew. Signature of previous owner on front free endpaper. Binding rubbed on spine, and covers. Head of spine partly chipped. Foxing stain going through the last 11 leaves. Binding in overall fair to good-, interior in good+ condition.