Sepher Mitzvoth Gadol (SeMa”G) [“The Great Book of Commandments”: Enumeration of the 613 precepts]

MOSES OF COUCY

Daniel Bomberg

Venice

1547

Title within architectural arch. Numerous scholarly marginalia.

Vinograd, Venice 318; Habermann, Bomberg 194; Adams M-1872

Following Maimonides’ Code, the Sepher Mitzvoth Gadol would be the next significant work of this genre, as it reflects Aschkenazic halachic tradition. Indeed, in R. Joshua Boaz’s Ein Mishpat, which has appeared in virtually every edition of the Talmud since its first appearance in Giustanini’s Venetian edition of 1546, passages in the Talmud are carefully cross-referenced to both Maimonides’ Code and to the Sepher Mitzvoth Gadol. See Marvin J. Heller, Printing the Talmud (1992), pp. 185-90