Mishnah Torah [Rabbinic Code]

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: $3,750

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES/RaMBa”M).

printer

Meir Parenzo for Alvise Bragadin

Place

Venice

Publication

1574-76

Description

FIRST EDITION with commentary by Joseph Karo. With glosses including Abraham ben David of Posquieres (RAVa”D) and Levi ibn Chabib. Fourteen parts in four volumes. Four title pages, each with Bragadin’s device of Three Crowns, Meir Parenzo’s device of Venice and the Dragon on verso, and following the Table of Contents (the late) Asher Parenzo’s device of a Mountain rising from the Sea. Text illustrations

references

Vinograd, Venice 600; I.J. Dienstag, Mishneh Torah Leharambam, in: Studies...in Honor of I. Edward Kiev (1971) no. 10; Adams M-169

ff. (22), 316; (10) 219 (i.e. 218); (20), 451, (1); (10) 297, (9). Trimmed, lightly browned or stained in places, final leaf of first volume taped on verso. Modern full calf. Folio

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