Aaron ben Elijah. Sepher Mitzvoth Gadol - Gan Eden [Book of Comandments - “Garden of Eden”]

Estimate: $200–$300
Hammer price: $275

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author

(KARAITICA).

printer

Abraham ben Samuel Firkovich

Place

Gozlov

Publication

1866

Description

Second Edition. Double columns

summary

Aaron ben Elijah the Younger of Nicomedia, Turkey (1328?-1369), codifier, bilbical exegete and religious philosopher, was regarded by his coreligionists as the “Karaite Maimonides.” His “Gan Eden,” a systematic code of Karaite law, would be analogous to the Rabbanite code of Tur by R. Jacob ben Asher. See EJ, Vol. X, col. 771

ff. (3), 2-197. Trace foxed. Generally, crisp, clean copy. Recent endpapers. Contemporary boards. Sm. folio

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