Auction 65 · Lot 171
MOSHE BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES/.
- Estimate
- $10,000–$15,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
(France?)
Publication
c. 1370)
Description
RaMBa”M). Mishneh Torah, Sepher Nezikin [Book of Torts].
Hebrew Manuscript on vellum, written in Ashkenazi semi-cursive script on two large leaves, composed in two columns.
* 1. Laws of Theft and Loss, from Chap. 18, no. 12 - Laws of Wounding and Damages Chap. 1, no. 18.
* 2. Laws of Murder and Preservation of Life, from Chap. 6, no. 2 - Chapter 7 no. 9.
Each fragment with scholarly glosses in “windows” along the text.
summary
Early French Ashkenazi manuscripts of the Mishneh Torah are highly scarce.
These leaves were extracted from the binding of a 14th-century French manuscript. The anonymous glosses in the windows along the text are not by R. Abraham ben David of Posquieres (Rabad) but from another source.
Accompanied by a scholarly description by Dr. Benjamin Richler, Jerusalem.
Damaged with loss of text. Handsomely housed in modern vellum binding. Folio.
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