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Mishneh Torah Le'Ha'Rambam - [Constantinople 1509] - Three Volumes, with Glosses and Signatures

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A. Mishneh Torah Le'Ha'Rambam. Zemanim section. Omissions in the leaves with omissions of text were professionally restored. Several glosses, some of them scholarly and some lingual, or additions according to manuscripts, in early script, by different writers. The copy begins with leaf 24. 176 leaves. "Hagahot maimoniyot" that were printed here differ from those printed in subsequent editions. The "Hagahot Maimoniyot" included a collection of responses by the Maharam of Rothenberg, which in subsequent editions were printed separately.

B. Mishneh Torah Le'Ha'Rambam. The section of Zera'im, Avodah, Korbanot and Tahara.
A small piece of paper with a handwritten passage from the composition 'Tola'at Ya'akov' by the Kabbalist Rabbi Meir ibn Gabai is bound with the book. A leaf of a book from the early 17th century is also attached. A long scholarly gloss on leaf 21 and an additional one on leaf 48 of Seder Tahara. An additional gloss on leaf 9 of Korbanot, signed (in different script?) "Yisrael". Ownership inscriptions.
Throughout the book, several corrections of printing errors, most likely in accordance with more precise manuscripts. A long handwritten completion on leaf 18 of Seder Tahara, due to an omission of the printed text.
Most of the glosses and corrections are in Yemenite script.
44; 40; 18; 65 leaves. (The first leaves were missing and were completed in ancient script. In addition, leaf 64 of Tahara is also missing).
Condition: Fair. Most of the leaves are in good condition; however, certain leaves are worn and torn. The first leaves are detached.

C. Fourth book, Nashim, leaves 1-98. Condition: Good. Stains.
Enclosed are two additional leaves of Seder Nashim. Leaves 43 and 46. On one of them, an ancient scholarly gloss [signed?].

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