Sepher Mitzvath Gadol (SM”G) [“The Great Book of Precepts”]

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: $5,250

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

MOSES BEN JACOB OF COUCY.

printer

Daniel Bomberg

Place

Venice

Publication

1522

Description

This copy with many comprehensive and often lengthy scholarly marginal notes in more than one early Ashkenazic hand.

references

Vinograd, Venice 66.

summary

After Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah, the Sepher Mitzvoth Gadol (Sma”g) would be the next significant work of codification, reflecting French halachic tradition. The first post-incunable edition. An extensively annotated copy that demands careful research.

ff. 246 (of 250, lacking first two and final three leaves). Some staining, some slight worming in places, lower corners of few leaves repaired, trimmed. Modern boards. Folio.

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