Auction 14 · Lot 289

Seder Moed. With commentary by Moses Maimonides and Obadiah Bertinoro

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

(MISHNAH)

printer

Tobias Foa

Place

Sabbionetta

Publication

1559

Description

Title page within woodcut garlanded and historiated architectural border

references

Vinograd, Sabbioneta 50; Mehlman 106; not in Adams

summary

The first two Orders were printed by Foa in Sabbioneta and then completed in Mantua. Complete sets are rare. (See Lots 290-292). The Hebrew press at Sabbioneta escaped lightly from the storm of Papal condemnation of Hebrew books which was raging at the time in Venice and Rome. Indeed, the Sabbioneta Hebrew press flourished between the years 1551 and 1559, and books never previously published treating aspects of Christianity were issued with considerable freedom. The decree of Pope Paul III in 1553 passed over the city without apparent effect, a tribute to the liberality and culture of the ruling prince of the province

ff.104. ff. 48 and 84-5 duplicated. Stained in places, paper repair to title not affecting text, taped repair to f.48, neat marginal repairs in places, previous owners inscriptions on front-free endpaper. Recent blind-tooled tan calf. Sm. 4to

Enquire about this lot