Aaron ben Elijah. Sepher Mitzvoth Gadol - Gan Eden [Book of Comandments - “Garden of Eden”]

AUCTION 37 | Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at 1:00

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Lot 130

(KARAITICA).

Aaron ben Elijah. Sepher Mitzvoth Gadol - Gan Eden [Book of Comandments - “Garden of Eden”]

Second Edition. Double columns ff. (3), 2-197. Trace foxed. Generally, crisp, clean copy. Recent endpapers. Contemporary boards. Sm. folio

Gozlov : Abraham ben Samuel Firkovich 1866

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $275

Aaron ben Elijah the Younger of Nicomedia, Turkey (1328?-1369), codifier, bilbical exegete and religious philosopher, was regarded by his coreligionists as the “Karaite Maimonides.” His “Gan Eden,” a systematic code of Karaite law, would be analogous to the Rabbanite code of Tur by R. Jacob ben Asher. See EJ, Vol. X, col. 771