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Gikatilla (Yosef Ben Abraham) Portae lucis, first edition, collation: A8, B-N4, woodcut pictorial title in red and black by Hans Burgkmayr, K4 verso with woodcut kabbalistic diagram, sig.L-N (i.e. last 11 leaves of text and final blank) supplied in good facsimile, occasional spotting and browning, contemporary limp vellum, soiled, 4to, Augsburg, Johann Miller, 9 June, 1516. ⁂ Important early work by the 13th century Spanish kabbalist Joseph Gikatilia. By translating the work into Latin, Paulus Ricius, a converted Jew, made available to Christians for the first time what amounts to an introductory course in the concepts and keywords of the Kabbalah. This book is said to have inspired Reuchlin's De arte Cabalistica, which appeared the following year.