RaMBa”M). Acht Capitel. With notes by Dr. M. Wolff.

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $1,300

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author

MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES/

printer

H. Hunger

Place

Leipzig

Publication

1863

Description

FIRST EDITION . Text in Judeo-Arabic and German on facing pages.

summary

Edward Pococke made available for first time the original Judeo-Arabic version of Maimonides’s Shemonah Perakim in his Porta Mosis, Oxford 1654-55. This German translation is based upon Pococke’s text with corrections and scholarly notes by Dr. Bernhard Moritz Wolff, rabbi of Gothenburg, Sweden (d. 1904). The original Judeo-Arabic version of Maimonides’s philosophic text is important as it clears up many difficult passages in Samuel ibn Tibbon’s Hebrew translation.

pp. viii, 109, (2). Some staining, fore-edges frayed. Unbound. 8vo.

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