Mishnayoth. With commentaries of Maimonides and Obadiah Bertinoro. Prepared by Joseph Ottolenghi.

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(MISHNAH).

Mishnayoth. With commentaries of Maimonides and Obadiah Bertinoro. Prepared by Joseph Ottolenghi.

Second edition of Bertinoro's commentary. On title, letters of word "Mishnayoth" white within individual vignettes. Six Orders of Mishnah bound in single volume. Numerous Hebrew marginalia and diagrams. On blank tipped in between ff. 74-75, <<original manuscript of Yedidyah ben Moshe of Recanati>>, wherein the Author disagrees with Maimonides' commentary to Tractate Eruvin 2:5; manuscript mathematical computations and geometric diagrams at end. ff. (6), 9-398. Title repaired with portion supplied in facsimile, initial several leaves marginally repaired with some loss, few leaves tipped in from a shorter copy, variously stained and wormed. Modern calf with clasps and hinges. Folio. Vinograd, Riva 10; Mehlman 105.

Riva di Trento: (Antoni Bruin) 1559

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

Italian by birth, R. Ovadiah Bertinoro (second half 15th-century) was a student of the great Italian halachist R. Yoseph Colon (MaHaRI"K) and died in Jerusalem about 1500. His commentary first appeared in Venice in 1548-9 and due to its immense popularity, hardly an edition of the Mishnah appears without it. Amadeo (Yedidyah) Recanati is famed for his translation of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed into Judeo-Italian under the title Erudizione dei Confusi (c. 1580). See EJ, Vol. X, col. 428; Vol. XIII, col. 1607.