Pirkei Moshe [commentary to the Ethics of the Fathers]

Almosnino, Moses

Ya’avetz

Salonika

1563

FIRST EDITION. A WIDE-MARGINED COPY. Signatures and stamp of previous owners on title including: Menachem Katz HaMechuna Mendlin Katz Rapa, Ch. Rokeach and Samuel Broady, Maggid of Leeds. Signatures of censors on recto of final leaf. Marginalia.

Vinograd, Salonika 62

Moses ben Baruch Almosnino (c. 1515-c. 1580) was a Salonikan preacher, whose numerous publications demonstrate extensive knowledge of science, philosophy, history, and rhetoric. Almosnino’s halachic responsa appear in the collections of his contemporaries such as Samuel de Medina (MaHaRaSHDa”M), and Jacob di Boton. Besides Hebrew commentaries to the Five Scrolls (Yedei Moshe, 1582), the Pentateuch and prayer book (Tefillah LeMoshe, 1563), Almosnino also published in Judeo-Spanish. See EJ, Vol. II, cols. 669-71. The printer of the present work was the grandson of the celebrated Joseph Ya’avetz, known as “He’Chasid Ya’avetz” (the Pious Ya’avetz), author of several works.