Heading: (Kabbalah)
Author: Porchetus de Salvaticis, Victoria
Title: Victoria Porcheti adversus impius Hebraeos, in quatum ex sacris literis, tum ex dictis Talmud, ac Caballistarum et aliorum omnium authorum, quos Hebraei recipiunt, monstratur veritas catholicae fidei...
Place Published: [Paris]
Publisher:[Francisci Regnault]
Date Published: 1520
Description:

xciiii leaves. Text in 2 columns. Title page with elaborate pictorial woodcut border & large central printer's device (featuring an elephant); woodcut initials. (Folio) 26.7x18.5 cm (10½x7¼"), 18th century full red French goatskin with triple gilt filet border, spine tooled & lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges; modern custom half morocco slipcase with chemise. First Edition.

One of the earliest printed works to discuss the doctrine of the Kabbalah, Porchetus' work is ironically one of the most notorious works of anti-semitism. In seeking to combat the scandalous content of the Toledot Yeshu ("Chronicles of Jesus"), a scurrilous "alternative biography" of Jesus, Porchetus explored the secret doctrine of the Tetragrammaton at considerable length. Martin Luther read Porchetus' text and used it as the primary source for his 1543 treatise "On the Ineffable Name and on the Chronicles of Jesus [Toledot Yeshu]", which he appended to his brutally antisemitic text "On the Jews and their Lies". Very rare in commerce.

Just a little shelf wear; occasional slight staining to upper corners of some leaves; a very fine and fresh copy in a handsome binding.