(MAIMONIDES / RaMBa”M). Moreh Nevuchim [“Guide to the Perplexed”]. With commentaries by Shem Tov, Ephodi and ibn Crescas

Third edition. Title within garlanded architectural columns. Printer’s device on title (cf. Yaari no. 20). Signature of former owner on title. Censors’ signature on final blank page: “Camillo Jaghel 1619.” (See Wm. Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books, pl. IV, no. 2.) Lines struck by censor replaced by hand. Extensive marginalia in Hebrew and Italian. Of especial interest are two Hebrew marginalia on ff. 164r. and 166r. that pursue Maimonides’ methodology regarding Ta’amei ha-Mitzvoth (rationales for commandments), specifically the showbread (lechem ha-panim) and wine libation (nisukh ha-yayin) ff. (14); 174. Two leaves of Moses Provencal’s Theorem of Apollonius - missing from most copies - provided in facsimile. Few light stains in places. Modern morocco. Folio Vinograd, Sabbioneta 8; Haberman, Adelkind 113; not in Adams

Sabbioneta: Cornelio Adelkind for Tobias Foa 1553