Sepher Ha’ibronoth [astronomy and calculations of intercalation and the Jewish calender]

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 82

BEILIN, ELIEZER

Sepher Ha’ibronoth [astronomy and calculations of intercalation and the Jewish calender]

Second Edition. Calendrical folding chart between ff.1-2 ff. 27 (1). Dampstained, small repair to folding chart, small puncture on a few leaves affecting a few letters, few leaves supplied from another copy. Vinograd, Riva di Trento 33; Mehlman 1335

Riva di Trento: Jacob Markriah 1561

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,500

Maimonides devotes an entire section of his Mishneh Torah to what he lists as a positive commandment “to know how to determine which is the first day of each month of the year.” Sepher Ibronoth was prepared by Beilin as a manual “to help an individual fulfil the commandments.” See A. J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth-Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress, (1991) pp.197-8