Mishnayoth. With commentaries of Maimonides and Obadiah Bertinoro. Prepared by Joseph Ottolenghi

AUCTION 47 | Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 1:00

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(MISHNAH)

Mishnayoth. With commentaries of Maimonides and Obadiah Bertinoro. Prepared by Joseph Ottolenghi

Second Edition of Bertinoro's commentary. On title, letters of word "Mishnayoth" white within individual vignettes. Six Orders of Mishnah bound in single volume. Numerous Hebrew marginalia and diagrams. On blank tipped in between ff. 74-75, original manuscript of Yedidyah ben Moshe of Recanati, wherein the Author disagrees with Maimonides' commentary to Tractate Eruvin 2:5; replete with manuscrip mathematical computations and geometric diagrams ff. (6), 9-398. Title repaired with portion supplied in facsimile, initial several leaves marginally repaired with some loss, several leaves loose, few leaves tipped in from a shorter copy, tears to ff. 36, 54, 87, 96, 119, variously stained and wormed. Later calf with clasps and hinges, rubbed. Folio Vinograd, Riva 10; Mehlman 105

Riva di Trento: (Antoni Bruin) 1559

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,800

Obadiah Bertinoro (second half 15th-century), an Italian by birth was a student of the great Italian halachist R. Joseph Colon (MaHaRI"K) and died in Jerusalem about 1500. His commentary first appeared in Venice in 1548-9 and due to its immense popularity, hardly an edition of the Mishnah appears without it. Amadeo (Yedidyah) Recanati is famed for his translation of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed into Judeo-Italian under the title Erudizione dei Confusi (c. 1580). See EJ, Vol. X, col. 428; Vol. XIII, col. 1607