Chazut Kashah, on the fundamentals of faith and the attitude to philosophy, by R. Yitzchak Arama – the Akedah. Sabbioneta: Partners for Toviah Foa, 1551. First edition.

Handwritten inscription and illustration on p. 30a.

38 leaves. 20.5 cm. Varying condition, good-fair to fair. Stains. Small marginal tears to several leaves. Extensive worming to approx. 12 last leaves, affecting text. New binding.

Contains leaves 31-38 with index, lacking in most copies.

On leaf 38 appears the printer's device of R. Yosef Shalit, founder of the Hebrew press in Mantua, along with his partner R. Yaakov son of Naftali HaKohen of Gazzuolo (in the press of Toviah Foa) – a shield depicting a peacock standing on three mountains, with a fish or worm in its beak. The four sides of the picture contain the initials of "Yosef son of Yaakov Shalit". See: Avraham Yaari, Diglei HaMadpisim HaIvriyim, Jerusalem 1944, pp. 12, 132-133.

On the book, see: Sarah Heller-Willensky, R. Yitzchak Arama UMishnato, Jerusalem 1956, pp. 28-29.

CB, no. 5312,1; Zedner, p. 374; Roest, p. 481.