Ruaḥ ha-ḥen
Subtitle: Physica Hebraea
By: Rabbi Aben Tybbon ; vt fertur, quae Ruaḥ ha-ḥen, hoc est, Spiritus gratiae, inscribitur, nunc primum edita, & Latina facta Ioanne Isaac Leuita Germano auctore
Contributors: Anatoli, Jacob ben Abba Mari ben Samson, active 13th century, attributed name; Levita, Johann Isaak, 1515-1577; Cholinus, Maternus, 1525-1588, printer; Soter, Jacobus, active 1555-1561, printer; Soter, family of printers, printer; Temple Emanuel Library of Hebrew and Rabbinical Literature
Publisher: Materno Cholino excudebat Iacobus Soter
Published: 1555
Place of publication: Coloniae
Language: heb; lat
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Hebrew language; Terms and phrases; Early works to 1800; Jewish philosophy; Medieval Philosophy
Other titles: Physica Hebraea; Spiritus gratiae; Physica hebraea.
Work titles: Ruaḥ ḥen Latin & Hebrew
Notes: A short anonymous explanation of terminology in the translations of the author from Arabic to Hebrew, as well as in philosophical literature in general. Some attribute this work to Yehudah ibn Tibon, the progenitor of a line of scholars active in translating Arabic works into Latin. He focussed on Hebrew grammatical works. While this is the fourth known printing of the work, it is the first to include vowel points, and the translation of Johann Isaac Levita, a descendant of Elias Levita, the most famous in his time of those Jews who sought scholarly contact with Christians, and taught Christians Hebrew.

Latin and Hebrew.

Beginning of title transliterated from the Hebrew.

"Ad Reuerendissimum in Christo patrem ac illustrissimum principem Electorem Adolphum, Archiepiscopum Coloniensem."

Initials (some decorated).

Last p. blank.

"Variously ascribed to Jacob ben Abba Mari Anatoli and Judah ben Saul Ibn Tibbon" NUC pre-1956.

Translated by Isaak Levita.

Signatures: A-L⁸.

Rare Book copy: From the Temple Emanuel Library of Hebrew and Rabbinical Literature.

Rare Book copy: Müller No. 1834.

Rare Book copy: Boards wanting.

Rare Book copy: Owner's mark on t.p.: Wernerj Helmichy?

Rare Book copy: Manuscript notes and corrections.

Rare Book copy: Bound with: Maimonides, Moses. De astrologia.1555.

Friedberg, Bet Eked Sepharim [resh] 219.4

BMC v. 119, col. 590

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), I 1