/RaMBa”N). Hasagoth shel ha-Ramban she-Hisig al Rabeinu Moshe bar Maimon be-Minyan ha-Mitzvoth [Nachmanides’ Glosses to Maimonides’ Book of Precepts]

Estimate

$20,000–$30,000

Hammer price

$35,000

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author

MOSES BEN NACHMAN (NACHMANIDES.

printer

David and Samuel Nachmias

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1510

Description

FIRST EDITION Printed without a title page

references

Vinograd, Const. 23; Yaari, Const. 8; Mehlman, 764

summary

Rare First Edition of Nachmanides’ Glosses. The first of Nachmanides’ halachic works to appear in print. Here, Nachmanides subjected Maimonides’ Book of Precepts (see previous lot) to a thorough critique. Besides animadversions to Maimonides’ fourteen Shorashim, Nachmanides provides those commandments - both positive and negative - which he believes Maimonides wrongly overlooked. In his Hasagoth, Nachmanides ofttimes rises to the defense of the anonymous author of Halachoth Gedoloth, whose earlier system Maimonides found to be deficient.

ff. 72. Some staining, slight marginal repair to lower corners of final five leaves. Modern gilt tooled calf. 4to

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