Lot 58
The 613 Precepts According to Maimonides – Hebrew-Latin Edition, Translated by Johann Leusden – Utrecht, 1686
Sexcenta & tredecim praecepta mosaica [The 613 Precepts According to Maimonides], translated by Johann Leusden. Utrecht: Francisci Halma, 1686. Hebrew and Latin.
Bilingual edition (arranged with Hebrew and Latin aligned facing each other, on opposite pages) of Maimonides's listing of the 613 mitzvot (precepts), excerpted from the introduction to his seminal halakhic work, the "Mishneh Torah." Translated by the Calvinist Orientalist and philologist Johann Leusden (1624-1699).
[3], 56 pp., approx. 19 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor blemishes. No binding.
