Sepher Mitzvath Gadol (SM”G) [“The Great Book of Precepts”]

Estimate: $20,000–$25,000
Hammer price: $24,000

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

author

MOSES OF COUCY.

printer

Gershom ben Moses Soncino

Place

Soncino

Publication

19th December 1488

Description

Woodcut initials and incipit panels on on ff. 2r, 8v, 103v, and 107r. Marginalia

references

Vinograd, Soncino 37; Goff, Heb 85; Freimann & Marx, Thesaurus A-48

summary

The first book printed by Gershom Soncino. Second incunable edition of this extensive and important work, the first was printed in Rome, c.169-72

ff. 278 (of 280) lacking opening blank and colophon leaf. Printed without a title page. Lightly stained, f. 198 and final 25 leaves neatly laid to size, few leaves with some loss on first few lines, few taped repairs. Recent blind-tooled tan calf with clasps and hinges. Folio

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