Seder Zeraim [agricultural laws). With commentary by Moses Maimonides and R. Samson ben Abraham of Sens (Ra”sh).

Estimate: $6,000–$9,000
Hammer price: $6,500

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author

(MISHNAH).

printer

Daniel Bomberg

Place

Venice

Publication

1522

Description

FIRST BOMBERG EDITION. Initial word of each Tractate within decorative cartouche. A wide-margined copy. Extensive marginalia and manuscript text illustrations.

references

Vinograd, Venice 68; Haberman Bomberg 48.

summary

The writer of the scholarly marginal notes on f. 46b refers to the Arabic original of Maimonides’s commentary and signs this note with the initials Aleph Yud Nun. In other notes he cites Maimonides’s later opinions in Mishneh Torah. The note on f. 58b provides extensive mathematical calculations.

ff. (1), (1, blank), 6, 86. Trace stained, introduction by Maimonides supplied from a shorter copy with worming along inner margins. Modern calf. Tall folio.

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