RaMBa”M). Ma’amar Tehiyath ha-Methim [treatise on Resurrection]

MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES /

Solomon b. Isaac Yaavetz

Constantinople

1569

FIRST EDITION

Yaari, Const. 233; Yaari, Const. 175; Melman 1212

Exceptionally rare. The JNUL copy is incomplete. In 1914, Israel Davidson wrote that the JTSA copy was incomplete (see Joseph Zabara’s Sefer Sha’ashu’im (New York, 1914) p. CXIII) - it has since been completed. Not in NYPL, Harvard, Library of Congress, British Library. The work was published by Judah b. Abraham Zarco and Shem Tov ibn Meir (the latter owned the manuscripts from which the edition was prepared). Zarco, a native of Rhodes who later lived in Salonika and Constantinople, was a poet and author (EJ). Ibn Meir was the descendant of a prominent Spanish-Jewish family. Fol. 56a contains a poem by Zarco praising ibn Meir for his efforts in publishing the book. Also includes the only printing of Judah Zabara’s Michtav ha-Techiyah. Little is known about Zabara, other than he studied in Spain in the 13th century and that he was a resident of Montpelier (?). His Michtav ha-Techiyah is not referred to in the scholarly literature