RaMBa”M). Mishnah Torah [Rabbinic Code]

This important first edition with the Keseph Mishneh, contains a fore- and after-word that relates that Moses Provencal of Mantua, “whose net is spread till Safed,” was the catalyst of the edition - encouraging and hastening Yoseph Karo to complete his commentary for inclusion here. Karo’s previous experience in publishing his Beth Yoseph had been disagreeable, for the printer went to press without waiting for the author’s corrections, which had to be published separately later. Yoseph Karo also used the agency of the great scholar and Kabbalist R. Menachem Azaria of Fano to ensure the perfection of this Maimonides edition. It is suggested that the Holy R’ma of Fano examined each individual volume upon publication