Rabbi Mosis Majemonidis liber [Hebrew phrase] Doctor perplexorum: : ad dubia & obscuriora Scripturæ loca rectiùs intelligenda veluti clavem continens, prout in praefatione, in quâ de authoris vitâ, & operis totius ratione agitur, pleniùs explicatur:

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204, Buxtorf, Johann, 1599-1664, Ibn Tibbon, Shmuel, 12th/13th cent · 1629 · Basileæ, : sumptibus & impensis Ludovici König, excudebat Jacob Genath · 6 pictures

Rabbi Moses Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed, a Latin edition of Jewish medieval philosophy printed in Basel in 1629 by Ludwig König's press, with Johann Buxtorf's editorial apparatus, for scholars of Scripture and Jewish thought. Its initials and ornaments are woodcut, with a bearded face mask at the top, a cherub-like figure in a capital V, a putto pouring from a vessel in a capital E, and foliate interlace in a capital D, offering a designer historical models for decorative capitals and grotesque cartouches.

Philosophy, Jewish · Philosophy, Medieval · Judaism

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