Zichron Torath Moshe [topical indices to Talmud, Midrash, etc. arranged in alphabetical order]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $850

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author

FIGO, MOSES

printer

Moses Parnes

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1553

Description

First Edition. Title within elegant woodcut foliate border. Owner’s signature on title: Naphtali bar Shmuel Moshe …Kissingen (?) (dated 1706). Marginalia in an early 17th-century Ashkenazic hand.

references

Vinograd, Const. 206; Yaari Const. 154

summary

Important alphabetical subject index of the Talmud including citations to Moreh Nevuchim, Akeidah, Ikarim, Derech Emunah, Neveh Shalom, Or Hashem, and Derashoth HaRa”N. A work that lends significance to the history of scholarship in the 16th-century, indicating those texts considered at the time to be worthy of study.

ff. 174. Marginal worming, stained in places, marginal repairs on final three leaves. Modern calf-backed marbled boards. Folio

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