Selections from The Valmadonna Trust Library: Highly Important Hebrew Printed Books
Nov 10, 2017
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LOT 167:
MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES /
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RaMBa”M). Masechta Avoth [commentary to Ethics of the Fathers, with text]. With commentaries by Maimonides and Rashi. Including Maimonides’ introduction, Shmoneh Perakim.
Second edition of Maimonides’ commentary. Title within woodcut architectural border. ff. (24). Closely trimmed, lightly shaved. Modern morocco. Folio. Vinograd, Mantua 65.
Meir b. Ephraim & Jacob Cohen of Gazollo for G. Ruffinelli, Mantua: 1560.
A complete Ethics of the Fathers with title-page stating such, nonetheless the volume is foliated ff. 67-88 and with the final page, following Avoth, with Yotzroth prayers. For creative commercial purposes, the printers extracted the text from their Machzor of 1557-60, issuing Avoth here as a separate entity. For the complete Machzor, see lot 145.
