<<RaMBa’N).>> Torath Ha’Adam.

Auction 94 | Thursday, June 17th, 2021 at 11:00am

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<<RaMBa’N).>> Torath Ha’Adam.

<<First edition.>> With laudatory poems by Joseph b. Joel (Bibas). Wide margins. ff. 64. Many leaves with marginal repairs or laid to size, repaired worming, lightly stained. Modern morocco. Sm. folio. Vinograd, Const. 117; Mehlman, 765; Yaari, Const. 64 (see Hacker’s corrections in Areshet vol. V, p. 479 who notes this was published earlier than Yaari indicates).

Constantinople: Israel Sarafti and Moses Chalimi 1519

Est: $10,000 - $12,000

PRICE REALIZED $13,000

<<Exceptionally Rare.>> Torath Ha’Adam [“The Law of Man”] serves as the basis for subsequent halachic discussions on the subjects of sickness, death, and mourning. The final chapter is the Ramban’s famous “Sha’ar HaGemul” on the Messianic Era and the Afterlife.