Meir ben Ezekiel ben Gabbai. Avodath ha-Kodesh. Cracow, Isaac ben Aaron Prostitz, 1576–77

R. Meir ben Gabbai (1480–after 1540), a Kabbalist of the generation of the Spanish exiles, wrote the most comprehensive and organized summary of the Kabbalah prior to the Safed period. The book consists of four parts: 1. on the unity of God; 2. on the worship of God; 3. on the purpose of man's existence; 4. an explanation of the esoteric parts of the Torah.

The first Hebrew press in Cracow was established in 1534; Isaac ben Aaron Prostitz attained great success with his press, which he set up in Cracow in 1569.

Contemporary binding (blind-tooled), early ownership marks and library stamps of the Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar Breslau and the Dr. B. Beer'sche Bibliothek on the title-page.