(MAIMONIDES / RaMBa”M). Moreh Nevuchim [“Guide to the Perplexed”]. With commentaries by Shem-Tov, Ephodi and ibn Crescas. * With: Provencal, Moses. Biur Inyan Shnei Kavim [dissertation on the Theorem of Apollonius]

MOSES BEN MAIMON

Cornilio Adelkind for Tobias Foa

Sabbioneta

1553

Third edition. Title within historiated border displaying printer’s device on title (cf. Yaari no. 20).

Vinograd, Sabbioneta 8; Haberman, Adelkind 113; not in Adams

Maimonides’ philosophical work, Guide to the Perplexed was held in high esteem even among Christian scholastic circles. In his Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas oftimes quotes “Rabbi Moyses.” See EJ, Vol. III, cols. 229-31. Maimonides discusses in the Guide the Theorem of Apollonius on two straight lines that never meet. Moses Provencal’s supplementary dissertation on the Theorem is often lacking from Adelkind’s edition. See: C. Roth, Jews in the Renaissance (1959), pp. 28-29, 236, 266.