Mitzvoth Lo Ta'aseh u-Mitzvoth Aseh 'im Perusheihen Ketzarim (Kitzur Sepher Mitzvoth Gadol)/Praecepta Mosaica (Hebrew text followed by Latin translation of Sebastian Münster)

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Lot 180

Moses ben Jacob of Coucy

Mitzvoth Lo Ta'aseh u-Mitzvoth Aseh 'im Perusheihen Ketzarim (Kitzur Sepher Mitzvoth Gadol)/Praecepta Mosaica (Hebrew text followed by Latin translation of Sebastian Münster)

Hebrew: ff. 166 (our copy is missing the final two leaves which have been supplied by hand). Latin: ff. 80 (last 3 leaves blank).Hebrew title and text read right to left; Latin title and text read left to right. A clean copy with ever so minor stains. Modern boards. 8vo. Vinograd, Basle 40; Prijs, 37; Adams, M-1871.

Basle: Henricus Petri 1533

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $550

ff. 167 and 168 have been deliberately removed from our copy because the owner, evidently a Jew, found offensive the remark by Münster which occurs there: “The Creator Who gave the Torah is one God—but by miracle was born of a virgin”!