(MAIMONIDES / RaMBa”M). Moreh Nevuchim [“Guide to the Perplexed”]. With commentaries by Shem Tov, Ephodi and ibn Crescas

Estimate

$700–$900

Hammer price

$1,200

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author

MOSES BEN MAIMON.

printer

Cornelio Adelkind for Tobias Foa

Place

Sabbioneta

Publication

1553

Description

Third edition. Title within garlanded architectural columns. Printer’s device on title (cf. Yaari no. 20). Signature of former owner on title. Censors’ signature on final blank page: “Camillo Jaghel 1619.” (See Wm. Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books, pl. IV, no. 2.) Lines struck by censor replaced by hand. Extensive marginalia in Hebrew and Italian. Of especial interest are two Hebrew marginalia on ff. 164r. and 166r. that pursue Maimonides’ methodology regarding Ta’amei ha-Mitzvoth (rationales for commandments), specifically the showbread (lechem ha-panim) and wine libation (nisukh ha-yayin)

references

Vinograd, Sabbioneta 8; Haberman, Adelkind 113; not in Adams

ff. (14); 174. Two leaves of Moses Provencal’s Theorem of Apollonius - missing from most copies - provided in facsimile. Few light stains in places. Modern morocco. Folio

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