Lot 66
"Kabbalah Unveiled" – Latin Translation of Kabbalistic Literature by the Hebraist Christian Knorr von Rosenroth – Frankfurt, 1684 – Second Volume
[Kabbalae Denudatae, Tomus Secundus (Kabbalah Unveiled, second volume), by Christian Knorr von Rosenroth. Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1684]. Latin, Aramaic and Hebrew. Missing title page.
The second volume of the composition "Kabbalah Unveiled" by Christian Knorr von Rosenroth (1636-1689) – a German Christian scholar and Hebraist, one of the founders of Christian Hebraism. The book compiles Latin translations of canonical texts of Kabbalistic literature (Sifra DeTzni'utah, Idra Rabba, Idra Zuta, Sefer Gilgulei Neshamot, and more), accompanied by Christian theological commentary. The book contains several Kabbalistic diagrams, including two plates.
38, [2], 598, 478 [i.e. 480] pp + [2] plates (one of them folding). Missing title page. Without the composition "Adumbratio Kabbalae Christianae" which was added to some of the copies of the volume. 19.5 cm. Good overall condition. The plate at the beginning of the book is detached (with trimmed margins. Mounted on paper). The folding plate is torn. Stains. Minor blemishes. Ink notations and markings. Parchment binding, with stains and minor blemishes.
