Sepher Mitzvoth Gadol (SeMa”G) [“The Great Book of Commandments”: Enumeration of the 613 precepts]
AUCTION 31 |
Tuesday, December 13th,
2005 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew and Other Printed Books
Lot 254
MOSES OF COUCY
Sepher Mitzvoth Gadol (SeMa”G) [“The Great Book of Commandments”: Enumeration of the 613 precepts]
Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1547
Est: $400 - $600
PRICE REALIZED $700
Following Maimonides’ Code, the Sepher Mitzvoth Gadol would be the next significant work of this genre, as it reflects Aschkenazic halachic tradition. Indeed, in R. Joshua Boaz’s Ein Mishpat, which has appeared in virtually every edition of the Talmud since its first appearance in Giustanini’s Venetian edition of 1546, passages in the Talmud are carefully cross-referenced to both Maimonides’ Code and to the Sepher Mitzvoth Gadol. See Marvin J. Heller, Printing the Talmud (1992), pp. 185-90