Sefer Derech Emunah, “The Way of Repentance in the Way of the Kabbalah” by Rabbi Meir Ben Gabbay [author of Avodat Hakodesh and Tola’at Yakov]. Padua, 1562. Printed by Lorenzo Pasquato and Partners.
On the reverse side of the title page introduction of “Samuel of Moravia Shatz of Padua Proofreader”. On leaf 2 there are ten questions which the student Rabbi Joseph Halevi asked the author. The work is a reply to these questions.
28 leaves. 19.5 cm. Good condition, stains, remains of fungus. Pages have been repaired. Drawing in ink on title page.
First Hebrew book printed in Padua, and one of the few Hebrew books printed there in the 16th century.