(MAIMONIDES / RaMBa”M). Mishnah Torah [Rabbinic Code]. With traditional commentaries - Hagahoth Maimoniyoth, Hasagoth ha-RABa”D, Kesef Mishneh, Lechem MIshneh, Magid Mishneh, Migdol Oz, Mishneh le-Melech

MOSES BEN MAIMON

Joseph Mai

Dyhernfurth

1809-14

FIRST EDITION OF COMMENTS BY R. ISAIAH BERLIN (PICK). Four parts in four volumes. Part III, f. 131v contains several engraved diagrams pertaining to Hilchoth Kilayim

Vinograd, Dyhernfurth 427

The printer of this Maimonides edition, Joseph ben Michel Mai, incorporated here the novellae written by his father-in-law, R. Isaiah Berlin “the most eminent critic among the German Talmudists of the eighteenth century.” Isaiah Berlin (1725-1799) studied in Halberstadt under the tutelage of R. Hirsch Bialeh (Charif). Following his marriage, he was also referred to as R. Isaiah Pick, in honor of his wealthy father-in-law, Wolf Loebel Pick. Berlin annotated almost every book in his considerable library, mentioning sources, or noting parallel passages and variant readings. These glosses cover a considerable swath across rabbinic literature, yet it was Berlin's contributions to the Talmud that some consider to be ranked only second in importance to those by the illustrious Vilna Gaon. See N. Friedmann, Otzar Harabanim , p. 245, no. 11677; JE, Vol. III, pp. 79-80