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LOT 222:
Rare Pamphlet for Printing Mishneh Torah L'HaRamba"m [Amsterdam, 1699]
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Rare Pamphlet for Printing Mishneh Torah L'HaRamba"m [Amsterdam, 1699]
Rare advertising leaflet with approbations for Amsterdam rabbis towards printing the Ramba"m's Mishneh Torah. This publication of Mishneh Torah was printed at Emanuel ben Yosef Attias Press 1702-1703, with the same approbations present in this pamphlet. [Amsterdam, Yosef Attias Press 1699]. Listed by MIf'al HaBibliographiah HaIvri according to a copy in a private collection. Not found in the National Library's collection.
Text of the [Hebrew] title: "Revealed and hidden sefer for the sacred in land ... those who love Torah, who volunteer among the people to be an example by printing the works of ... Rabbeinu Moshe bar Maimon ztz"l, especially his work Yad HaChazakah." The virtues of this sefer and this edition appear across both leaves, with details of registration to receive the sefer when they are printed. Likewise, there are conditions for the beginning of the printing ... so that when the gvir Yosef Attias is satisfied ... to bring it to print." Page II bears the approbations of "two of the great luminaries in Amsterdam."
[2] pp, 28x19 cm. High-quality paper.
Fine condition. Several isolated worming perforation. Fold marks.Tiny tears in the margins and the folds. Signs of tears. Erased stamp?
