MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES/

Amsterdam

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RaMBa”M). Mishnah Torah [Rabbinic Code]. Four volumes. Engraved frontispiece. Text illustrations. I: ff.(9),327,(2),(4). Small hole on first leaf of illustrations. II: ff.(2),227,(4). III: ff.(1), (1),368,(9). IV: ff. 1),309,(13). Browned and stained, marginalia. Contemporary uniform blind-tooled diced morocco over heavy wooden boards, corner and central rivets (three of eight lacking) on upper and lower covers, spine in compartments, clasps and hinges (six of eight lacking). Folio. [Vinograd, Amsterdam 744; Fuks, Amsterdam 418]. Amsterdam, Immanuel Athias, 1702. * BOTON, ABRAHAM BEN MOSES DI. Lechem Mishnah [commentary and novellae to Mamonides’ Mishnah Torah]. Four parts in one volume. ff.(3),49; 52; 54; 70. [Vinograd, Amsterdam 752 and 1016; Fuks, Amsterdam 419]. Amsterdam, Athias & Proops, 1703-14

R. Nathaniel ben Naphtali Tzvi Weil was born at Stühlingen in 1687 and died at Rostadt May 7th, 1769. In his youth, he studied under R. Abraham Broda in Prague and later became principal of the yeshivah in Prague. Following the expulsion of Jews from Bohemia in 1744, he took up the rabbinate of the Schwazwald (Black Forest). In 1750 he was called as rabbi to Karlsruhe where he officiated for some twenty years until his death. His fame rests on his magum opus, Korban Nethanel (Karlsruhe 1755); a comprehensive supercommentary on Asher b. Jechiel’s commentary to Mo’ed and Nashim. The work was also the first Hebrew book printed at Karlsruhe