<<RaMBa’M).>> Miloth HaHigayon [introduction to Logic]. With two anonymous commentaries.

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MOSHE BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES /

<<RaMBa’M).>> Miloth HaHigayon [introduction to Logic]. With two anonymous commentaries.

Second edition. Letters of initial word floriated within woodcut surround. <<Illustrated diagram>> on last page displaying differing logical categories: Vegetable, animal, and human, as well as "non-vegetable, non-animal and non-human." ff. 18. Trace stained. Modern calf. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 388.

Venice: Daniel Adelkind for Giustiniani 1550

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

It has been long believed that Maimonides composed this book on Logic at the tender age of fifteen. This feat would be all the more impressive considering that at the time his family was constantly on the move in southern Spain having been uprooted from Cordoba by the Almohads. For further discussion regarding the authorship of the text, see H. Davidson: The Authenticity of Works Attributed to Maimonides, in: Me'ah She'arim: Studies in Medieval Jewish Spiritual Life in Memory of Isadore Twersky (2001) pp. 118-125.