Auction 98 · Lot 241
Mischnah. Oder der Text des Talmuds. Translated into German by Johann Jacob Rabe.
- Estimate
- $500–$700
- Hammer price
- $200
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(MISHNAH).
Place
Onolzbach (i.e. Ansbach)
Publication
1760-63
Description
FIRST GERMAN EDITION. Six parts in two volumes, complete.
references
Freimann 127; Fuerst III,127
summary
This feat of scholarship was much admired by Moses Mendelssohn, who, upon publication of the first volume, did not hesitate to write a review praising Rabe’s accomplishments. Rabe included the entire review, complete with Mendelssohn's notes, in the Foreword to Part II. In introducing the anonymous Rabbi (i.e., Moses Mendelssohn), Rabe felt moved to bestow upon him the celebrated compliment previously reserved for Moses Maimonides: “From Moses to Moses there was none like Moses” ("Von Mose bis auf Mose sene nicht gewesen wie dieser Mose") (foreword, top p. 2).
See A. Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn (1973) pp.196-97, 210.
Vol. I. Pt. I (Zera'im): pp. (12), 14, (2), 268, (6). * Pt. II (Mo'ed): pp. (10), 294, (4). * Pt. III (Nashim): (2), 250, (4).
* Vol. II. Pt. IV (Nezikin): pp. (8), 306, (6). * Pt. V (Kodashim): pp. (2), 144, 147-294, (4). * Pt. VI (Toharoth): pp. (4), 396, (1), 394-420 (i.e., 402), (8).
Browned. Contemporary half-calf, heavily rubbed. Lg. 4to.
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