KABBALAH Pistorius Johannes editor Artis cabalisticae To

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(KABBALAH.) Pistorius, Johannes, editor. Artis cabalisticae: hoc est, Reconditae theologiae et philosophiae scriptorum: Tomus I. [52], 979, [1] pages. Folio, 314x198 mm, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with concentric ornamental rolls around center panel of intersecting diagonal triple fillets, rebacked retaining most of original backstrip, lacking catches and clasps; occasional minor browning and marginal dampstains, title and last leaf soiled and remargined. Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1587

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first edition. all published of an influential compendium of Christian and Jewish kabbalistic texts comprising Paulus Ricius, De coelesti agricultura (including his Latin translation of Joseph Gikatila's Sha'arei Orah); Johannes Reuchlin, De arte cabalistica and De verbo mirifico; Arcangelo da Borgonuovo, Interpretationes in cabalistarum dogmata, on the commentaries of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; and Latin versions of the anonymous Sefer Yetsira and Judah Abravanel's Dialoghi di Amore. The projected second volume to contain exclusively Jewish texts remained unpublished. Caillet 8702; EJ XIII, 566; Scholem, Bibliotheca Kabbalistica 914.