RaMBa”M). Sepher HaMitzvoth [“The Book of Precepts”]. Translated from Judeo-Arabic by Moses ibn Tibbon.

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MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES/

RaMBa”M). Sepher HaMitzvoth [“The Book of Precepts”]. Translated from Judeo-Arabic by Moses ibn Tibbon.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Issued without a title page. ff. 62 (of 68). Provided in facsimile: ff. 1-3, 7-8, 68. Leaves 4-6 partially in facsimile; leaves 61-7 laid to size with loss of few letters to upper corners of final two leaves. Lightly stained. Modern calf-backed marbled boards; housed in custom slip-case. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Const. 63; Mehlman 763.

Constantinople: n.p., c. 1510

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

<<Rare First Edition of a Fundamental Rabbinic Text.>> The most authoritative listing of all the Commandments of the Torah, along with a brief description of each. Sepher HaMitzvoth originally appeared in Arabic under the title "Kitab al-Farai'd" and was subsequently translated into Hebrew by the Provençal rabbi Moses ibn Tibbon.