(The Elder). Kiryath Sepher [commentaries and novellae to Maimonides’ Mishnah Torah]

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: $3,750

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author

TRANI, MOSES DI

printer

Alvise Bragadin

Place

Venice

Publication

1551

Description

FIRST EDITION. Printer’s device on title (Yaari no.18)

references

Vinograd, Venice 427; Mehlman 723; Adams T-900

summary

WITH THREE RARE ADDITIONAL LEAVES LACKING IN MOST ALL COPIES. The publishers state they received these additional comments and corrections after the work been printed. On the importance of these additional leaves, see the article by David Metzger, Moriah, vol. VIII, no. 8-9, (1979), p. 14. Of Spanish origin, the author was born in Salonika. In young adulthood he proceeded to Safed where he studied under R. Jacob Berab who gave him ordination amidst the effort to re-introduce the Semichah

ff. 253, 3. Dampstained, gently damp-wrinkled, title remargined slightly affecting a few words of publisher's introduction on verso, marginal repairs to first and last few leaves. Recent morocco. Folio

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