RaMBa”M). Commentary to Mishnah Tractate Avoth. Translated from Arabic to Hebrew by Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon

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Exceptional Printed Books, Sixty-Five Hebrew Incunabula: The Elkan Nathan Adler-Wineman Family Collection

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MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES)

RaMBa”M). Commentary to Mishnah Tractate Avoth. Translated from Arabic to Hebrew by Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon

FIRST EDITION. The text of the Mishnah has been vocalized in a neat hand. On f.44r. corrigendum at top of page ff. (47). Touch stained, otherwise a fine, attractive copy. Recent morocco. 8vo Vinograd, Soncino 2; Goff 83; Goldstein 35; Offenberg 93; Steinschneider, p. 228, no. 1433, 1; Thes. A41; Wineman Cat. 17. Not in Cambridge University

Soncino: Joshua Solomon ben Israel Nathan Soncino (1484)

Est: $50,000 - $70,000

PRICE REALIZED $170,000

A FINE COMPLETE COPY OF THE ETHICS OF THE FATHERS WITH MAIMONIDES’ COMMENTARY In his Translator's Introduction, ibn Tibbon notes that sandwiched between Tractates Eduyoth and Avodah Zarah lies Tractate Avoth for which there is no Gemara. Consequently, Maimonides stepped into the breach with his Arabic commentary to this Mishnah. Since the tone of the Tractate focuses on moral improvement, Maimonides prefaced his commentary with the "Shmonah Perakim," eight chapters that provide a digest of Maimonidean psychology