Aaron ben Elijah. Sepher Mitzvoth Gadol - Gan Na’ul [Book of Comandments - “Locked Garden”]

Estimate: $200–$300
Hammer price: $300

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author

(KARAITICA)

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Abraham ben Samuel Firkovich

Place

Gozlov (Eupatoria)

Publication

1866

Description

Second Edition

summary

Classic Legal Work of the Karaites. Aaron ben Elijah (1328?-1369) of Nicomedia, Turkey, is regarded as the Karaite analogue to Maimonides. He produced a trilogy - Etz Chaim (philosophy), Gan Eden (law), and Kether Torah (commentary on Pentateuch) - that stands as a monumental summation of Karaite belief and practices. See EJ, Vol. II, cols. 10-12

ff. (3), 2-197. Crisp, clean copy. Recent endpapers. Contemporary half calf boards, rebacked. Folio

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