(MOSES BEN MAIMON. MAIMONIDES/RaMBa”M)

AUCTION 9 | Tuesday, March 28th, 2000 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 302

(MOSES BEN MAIMON. MAIMONIDES/RaMBa”M)

Group of Four Maimonides related Hebrew Printed Books. * Mishneh Torah, Madah Ahavah Zemanim [Rabbinic code]. Mantua, 1779. * Arama, David ben Abraham. Perush al HaRaMBa”M [commentary ad novellae on Mishneh Torah]. Amsterdam, 1706. * Sfedj, Abraham, Eynei Avraham [commentary and novellae on Mishneh Torah]. Amsterdam, 1784. * Mishneh Torah, Madah Ahavah Zemanim. Livorno, 1848 Variously worn. Variously bound. Lg. 4to and smaller Vinograd, Mantua 496; Amsterdam 813 & 2140; Leghorn 1024

v.p.: v.d.

Est: $700 - $900

The approbations (including R.Y. Landau of Prague) state that the author of Eynei Avraham was blind since birth but his mind is imbued with the “light “of knowledge. In his introduction, the author thanks R. Chaim Raphael Navon (the son of the author of Kiryat Melech and grandson of the Machaneh Ephraim ) who studied with him “from morning till the evening” and wrote the book as they studied. See A. Yaari, Mechkarei Sepher (1958) p.138. Includes a page long manuscript inscription, dated 1808, dedicating the book as a gift to a bridegroom