Seder Zeraim [agricultural laws). With commentary by Moses Maimonides and R. Samson ben Abraham of Sens (Ra”sh).

AUCTION 65 | Thursday, June 25th, 2015 at 1:00

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Lot 93

(MISHNAH).

Seder Zeraim [agricultural laws). With commentary by Moses Maimonides and R. Samson ben Abraham of Sens (Ra”sh).

<<FIRST BOMBERG EDITION.>> Initial word of each Tractate within decorative cartouche. A wide-margined copy. Extensive marginalia and manuscript text illustrations. ff. (1), (1, blank), 6, 86. Trace stained, introduction by Maimonides supplied from a shorter copy with worming along inner margins. Modern calf. Tall folio. Vinograd, Venice 68; Haberman Bomberg 48.

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1522

Est: $6,000 - $9,000

PRICE REALIZED $6,500

The writer of the scholarly marginal notes on f. 46b refers to the Arabic original of Maimonides’s commentary and signs this note with the initials Aleph Yud Nun. In other notes he cites Maimonides’s later opinions in Mishneh Torah. The note on f. 58b provides extensive mathematical calculations.