Sepher Kovetz al Yad HaChazakah [Commentary to Maimonides' Code]

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Trebitsch, Nachum

Sepher Kovetz al Yad HaChazakah [Commentary to Maimonides' Code]

THE SAMSON RAPHAEL HIRSCH COPY. Facing title, handsome full-page cameo portrait of author with underlying caption, “Rabbi Nehemias Trebitsch, k.k. mähr. schles. Oberlandesrabbiner, geb. am 14 Aug. 1779. gest. am 4 Juli 1842 in Prag” [born 14 August 1779; deceased 4 July 1842 in Prague]. Also in Hebrew. On title, stamp of owner, “S. Hirsch.” ff. (1), 43. (Mispaginated, 2 ff. “27.”). Browned. Half-calf boards; spine distressed. Folio Vinograd, Vienna 772

Vienna: Anton Edlen von Schmid 1835

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $450

A native of Prague, R. Nachum Trebitsch (1779-1842) served as “Oberlandesrabbiner” (Chief Rabbi) of Nikolsburg, Moravia, after the death of R. Mordecai Banet in 1829 (five years after Trebitsch's death in 1842, his position was filled by a young Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch). Trebitsch's work Kovetz, enjoyed wide popularity, becoming a standard commentary to Maimonides. See E.M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1996), p. 91; She'eloth u-Teshuvoth Rabbi Nachum Trebitsch (Machon Yerushalayim), introduction