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SAMUEL BEN JOSEPH HAKOHEN Ner Mitzvah [sermons based on Maimonides’s Thirteen Principles of Faith]. FIRST EDITION. Title set within architectural arch. With poems by Judah Aryeh de Modena and Samuel Archivolti praising the author and this work (p. 4b and 215b). The Solomon of Dubno copy, with his signature (and others including Juspe Cohen and Aharon Pintchov) on title-page; Adolph Lewisohn morocco book-label. ff. 212 (of 216), lacking ff. 185-8. Some worming and staining, few leaves repaired. Recent gilt-ruled calf. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 854. Venice: Giovanni de Gara 1598 Grammarian and Bible exegete Solomon Dubno (1738-1813), one-time collaborator with Mendelssohn in the Bi'ur project, amassed a library of more than 2,000 books and manuscripts. See EJ, Vol. VI, cols. 251-2. Grammarian and Bible exegete Solomon Dubno (1738-1813), one-time collaborator with Mendelssohn in the Bi'ur project, amassed a library of more than 2,000 books and manuscripts. See EJ, Vol. VI, cols. 251-2.