Sepher Kovetz al Yad HaChazakah [commentary to Maimonides’ Code].

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Lot 207

TREBITSCH, NACHUM.

Sepher Kovetz al Yad HaChazakah [commentary to Maimonides’ Code].

ff. (1), 43. Browned, previous owner’s stamps. Contemporary marbled boards, rubbed and rebacked. Tall folio. Vinograd, Vienna 772.

Vienna: Anton Edlen von Schmid 1835

Est: $400 - $600

A native of Prague, R. Nachum Trebitsch (1779-1842) served as “Oberlandesrabbiner” (Chief Rabbi) of Nikolsburg, Moravia, following the death of R. Mordecai Banet in 1829. Trebitsch’s work enjoyed wide popularity, becoming a standard commentary to Maimonides’s Code.