Johannes Stephanus Rittangelius. [Sefer Yetzirah] Id est Liber Jezirah qui Abrahamo patriarchae adscribitur. Amsterdam, Jodocus and Johannes Janssonius, 1642

Latin translation of Sefer Yetzirah by J.S. Rittangelius, Professor of Hebrew in Koningsberg. It formed the basis for Campegius Vitringa's Sacrarum observationum liber primus (1683), with which this book is bound in the BPH copy; Vitringa's work also supplied an exposition of the 'Sefiroth Cabbalisticae'.

Through contemplation of the mysteries of the Hebrew letters and the Sefiroth, Abraham attained a revelation of God, which is why the book was attributed to him.

From the library of Walter Pagel.