Sephiroth Tree print
Illustration from "Portae Lucis" by Paul Ricci (1516)
"The man on the cover of Jews and Magic is Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla (1248 - after 1305), a Spanish Kabbalist revered for his wisdom and his mystic powers—widely known as Joseph Ba'al ha-Nissim (Joseph the Master of Miracles). This fanciful image adorns the frontispiece of a popular version of Gikatilla’s most influential work: Sha’are Orah (Gates of Light), here translated into Latin as Portae Lucis. [...]
The full title, in fact, is Portae lucis haec est porta tetragrammaton (The Gate of Light, which is the Portal of the Tetragrammaton) — referring to the “four letters” that comprise the unspoken name of God. Paolo Riccio, a German Jewish convert to Catholicism, published his translation in Augsburg in 1516
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