Menasseh ben Israel.

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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Description

Tseror haHayyim... De termino vitae: libri tres. Quibus veterum Rabbinorum, ac recentium doctorum, de hac controversia sententia explicatur (EpoV noetikon sive carmen intellectuale, autore Dom. Jacob Rosales). Amsterdam: typis & sumptibus authoris, 1639

12mo (120 x 65mm.), [12], 237, [51]pp., Hebrew and Roman Letter, title within a woodcut border, binding: contemporary English calf, upper cover loose

Literature

Steinschneider 6205.10

Catalogue Note

Jacob [Immanuel] Rosales (Immanuel Boccaro Frances y Rosales) was born of a Marrano father (also a physican) either in 1588 or in 1593 in Lisbon, and died either in 1662 or 1668 in the duchy of Florence. A doctor trained at Montpellier, he lived in various places before Amsterdam, where he practised as a Jew and knew Menasseh ben Israel. He was the author of a number of poems and medical works, some published during his sojourn in Italy, of which the BL has one.