Pirkei Moshe [commentary to the Ethics of the Fathers]

AUCTION 46 | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 1:00

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Almosnino, Moses

Pirkei Moshe [commentary to the Ethics of the Fathers]

FIRST EDITION. A WIDE-MARGINED COPY. Signatures and stamp of previous owners on title including: Menachem Katz HaMechuna Mendlin Katz Rapa, Ch. Rokeach and Samuel Broady, Maggid of Leeds. Signatures of censors on recto of final leaf. Marginalia. ff. 111. Trace stained. Modern tooled calf. 4to Vinograd, Salonika 62

Salonika: Ya’avetz 1563

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,900

Moses ben Baruch Almosnino (c. 1515-c. 1580) was a Salonikan preacher, whose numerous publications demonstrate extensive knowledge of science, philosophy, history, and rhetoric. Almosnino’s halachic responsa appear in the collections of his contemporaries such as Samuel de Medina (MaHaRaSHDa”M), and Jacob di Boton. Besides Hebrew commentaries to the Five Scrolls (Yedei Moshe, 1582), the Pentateuch and prayer book (Tefillah LeMoshe, 1563), Almosnino also published in Judeo-Spanish. See EJ, Vol. II, cols. 669-71. The printer of the present work was the grandson of the celebrated Joseph Ya’avetz, known as “He’Chasid Ya’avetz” (the Pious Ya’avetz), author of several works.