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ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC.
Rosh Amanah [on the principles of faith].
Second edition.
ff. 34 Few stains, stamp removed from title, previous owner’s annotations, censored with signature at end. Modern calf. 4to.
Vinograd, Venice 254.
Venice, Cornelio Adelkind for Marco Antonio Giustiniani, 1545.
Rosh Amanah is Abrabanel’s most important work on philosophical-theological questions. It is devoted to the championing of the Maimonidean ‘Thirteen Articles of Faith’ against the attacks of R. Chasdai Crescas (Or Hashem) and R. Yoseph Albo (Sepher Ha’Ikarim).
See B. Netanyahu, Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman and Philosopher (1968) pp. 73, 85, 285, 291.
