Seder Moed. With commentary by Moses Maimonides and Obadiah Bertinoro

AUCTION 14 | Tuesday, November 13th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 289

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Seder Moed. With commentary by Moses Maimonides and Obadiah Bertinoro

Title page within woodcut garlanded and historiated architectural border ff.104. ff. 48 and 84-5 duplicated. Stained in places, paper repair to title not affecting text, taped repair to f.48, neat marginal repairs in places, previous owners inscriptions on front-free endpaper. Recent blind-tooled tan calf. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Sabbioneta 50; Mehlman 106; not in Adams

Sabbionetta: Tobias Foa 1559

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

The first two Orders were printed by Foa in Sabbioneta and then completed in Mantua. Complete sets are rare. (See Lots 290-292). The Hebrew press at Sabbioneta escaped lightly from the storm of Papal condemnation of Hebrew books which was raging at the time in Venice and Rome. Indeed, the Sabbioneta Hebrew press flourished between the years 1551 and 1559, and books never previously published treating aspects of Christianity were issued with considerable freedom. The decree of Pope Paul III in 1553 passed over the city without apparent effect, a tribute to the liberality and culture of the ruling prince of the province