RaMBa’M). Miloth HaHigayon [introduction to Logic]. With two anonymous commentaries.

MOSHE BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES /

Daniel Adelkind for Giustiniani

Venice

1550

Second edition. Letters of initial word floriated within woodcut surround. Illustrated diagram on last page displaying differing logical categories: Vegetable, animal, and human, as well as "non-vegetable, non-animal and non-human."

Vinograd, Venice 388.

It has been long believed that Maimonides composed this book on Logic at the tender age of fifteen. This feat would be all the more impressive considering that at the time his family was constantly on the move in southern Spain having been uprooted from Cordoba by the Almohads. For further discussion regarding the authorship of the text, see H. Davidson: The Authenticity of Works Attributed to Maimonides, in: Me'ah She'arim: Studies in Medieval Jewish Spiritual Life in Memory of Isadore Twersky (2001) pp. 118-125.