RaMBa”M). Moreh Nevuchim [“Guide to the Perplexed”]

MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES/

Cornilio Adel-kind for Tobias Foa

Sabbionetta

1553

Third edition. With commentaries by Shem-Tov, Ephodi and ibn Crescas. Title within historiated border. Printer’s device on title (cf. Yaari no. 20). * With: Provencal, Moses. Biur Inyan Shenei Kavim [dissertation on the Theorem of Apollonius]. First leaf following the title and the second leaf misbound three leaves later. These two leaves lacking from most copies

Vinograd, Sabbionetta 8; Haberman, Adel-kind 113; not in Adams

Maimonides’ philosophical work, Guide to the Perplexed was held in the highest esteem even among Christian scholarly circles. In his Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas often quotes “Rabbi Moyses.” See EJ, Vol. III, cols. 229-31. Maimonides discusses in the Guide the Theorem of Apollonius two straight lines that never meet. Moses Provencal’s supplementary dissertation on the Theorem is often lacking from Adelkind’s edition. See: C. Roth, Jews in the Renaissance (1959), pp. 28-29, 236, 266.