Selections from The Valmadonna Trust Library: Highly Important Hebrew Printed Books
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LOT 61:
BONAFOS, MENACHEM.
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(Also called Bonafoux, Abraham of Perpignan). Sepher HaGedarim - Michlal Yofi [“Book of Definitions.”].
FIRST EDITION. With introduction and notes by Isaac ben Moses ibn Aroyo. Final section contains Pirkei Hatzlacha ascribed to Maimonides. Ya’avetz-style florets on title.
A wide-margined copy. ff. 50. Previous owners’ marks on title-page including signature of Dovid Halevi Horovitz, paper repairs to final leaf affecting a few letters, stained in places. Modern crushed morocco. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Salonika 71.
(Solomon and Joseph Ya’avetz), Salonika: 1567.
Offers precise definitions of Hebrew technical terms that appear in philosophical and scientific literature, particularly, Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed. See M.J. Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book, pp. 590-1.
