Peirush Hilchoth Kidush ha-Chodesh [commentary to Maimonides: Laws of Sanctifying the Month]

AUCTION 32 | Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 at 1:00

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Lot 166

OBADIAH BEN DAVID.

Peirush Hilchoth Kidush ha-Chodesh [commentary to Maimonides: Laws of Sanctifying the Month]

FIRST EDITION ff. 20. Light stains. Loose. Contemporary calf, spine taped. Folio Vinograd, Const. 17; Yaari, Const. 7; Mehlman 760; Adams M-166

(Constantinople: David & Samuel ibn Nachmias 1509)

Est: $4,000 - $5,000

Obadiah ben David’s Commentary to Laws of Kidush ha-Chodesh, which discusses the intricacies of intercalating the Jewish calendar, was printed in the identical size of Maimonides’ Code published that same year in Constantinople, for inclusion in that volume. It is most scarce. Several blank spaces within the text were left for diagrams to be hand-drawn - but these were never supplied