POSTEL, Guillaume (1510-1581)

Abrahami patriarchae liber Jezirah , sive formationis mundi ... Vertebat ex Hebraeis, & commentariis illustrabat 1551. ad Babylonis ruinam & corrupti mundi finem, Guilielmus Postellus, restitutus. Parisiis, vaeneunt ipsi authori, sive interpreti, G. Postello. In scholis Italorum

Paris: for the author, 1552.
16mo: A--G8 H4, 60 unnumbered leaves. Roman and Italic letter withquotations in Greek and Hebrew and a page of Hebrew on E1r. Leaf size and condition: 116 x 80mm. Light waterstains in upper margins; wormholes in lower outer corners, well away from the text. A good copy. Binding: Contemporary or early calf, blind panelled sides with gilt centre and corner ornaments, nineteenth century reback. Spine and corners worn. Provenance and annotation: Early underlining and marginal marks; inscription on pastedown 'Nutt (from Franchi) 1882: 10/6'. Walter Pagel (1896--1983), signature, undated; B. E. J. Pagel (1930--2007). References: Wellcome 5227; BM STC, p. 1.
First edition.
§ Postel's Latin translations of the Zohar, the Sefer Yetzirah, and the Sefer ha-Bahir, the fundamental works of Jewish Cabbala. The first Hebrew printing of these works did not appear for another ten years. Based on his study of the Cabbala and its use of gender symbolism, Postel believed that a female messiah had arrived on earth who would usher in a new age of political and religious harmony (Petry). Literature: Yvonne Petry, Gender, Kabbalah, and the Reformation: The Mystical Theology of Guillaume Postel (Leiden, 2004).

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• Bestellnummer: 19749

• Antiquariat: Roger Gaskell (GREAT BRITAIN)