Yedei Moshe [homilies to the Five Scrolls]

AUCTION 41 | Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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ALMOSNINO, MOSES

Yedei Moshe [homilies to the Five Scrolls]

Second edition, with table of contents, index and afterword by Samuel Ibn Daisus. Title within garlanded architectural border. Opening word of each scroll within type-ornament. ff. 289, (9). Title worn along margins with strip removed from upper portion, final leaf worn. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, rubbed and worn, ex-library. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Venice 833; Mehlman 632

Venice: Daniel Zanetti 1597

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $500

Almosnino left several manuscripts unpublished. The author himself several times alludes to his work P’nei Moshe (see eg. ff. 85r., 108v.). Of scientific interest is Almosnino’s commentary on the Hebrew translation of the Sphera Mundi entitled Beth Elo-him. See M. Waxman, A History of Jewish Literature, Vol. I (1933) p. 319