Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items
Autograph Manuscript - Composition on the Rambam - Eastern Europe, 19th Century - Complete Hitherto Unprinted Composition by an Unidentified Author
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Large manuscript, complete composition on Mishneh Torah by the Rambam and its commentaries. Handwritten by the author (unidentified), with additions and erasures. [Eastern Europe, c. 19th century].
Complete edited hitherto unprinted composition. As a rule, the content is concise and clear - dissertation on the teachings of the Rishonim and the achronim. The Vilna Gaon's commentary on the Shulchan Aruch is often cited in the manuscript. The composition begins with clarifying the sources of the Rambam and determining the correct version of the Rambam and its commentaries and the ensuing halachic rulings in the Shulchan Aruch and its commentaries. The author notes the specific printing of the Mishne Torah he used for his exposition, for example: "Berdychiv printing" [published in 1808 or 1818]; "From here on, the Amsterdam printing of the Rambam".
The colophons at the beginning and end of the chapters clearly show that the author toiled in studying the Rambam and in editing a clear systematic commentary on his teachings. See for example leaf [122]: "Hilchot Chanukah have been completed clearly clearly with G-d's help and Part 1 of the Rambam has been completed clearly clearly with G-d's help, G-d shall give me the merit to complete Part 2 of the Rambam...". Title at top of leaf [202]: "Rambam Hilchot Shechita clear". On leaf [215]: "Hilchot Shechita have been completed clearly clearly and all of Part 2 of the Rambam has been completed… clearly". Title of leaf [216]: "Rambam with Magid Mishne on the laws of damages to possessions clear with G-d's help" (the author frequently uses the following expressions: "And here it is not appropriate to protract the explanation", "clearly with G-d's help", "clearly clearly with G-d's help").
[345] leaves, approximately 24 cm. Fair condition. Stains and wear. Wear damages to bottom margins, slightly affecting text (the damages to the text of the first leaves are more significant). Minor worming affecting text. Several detached or partially detached leaves. New binding.
Enclosed are another 3 leaves - small scrap of a beginning of a letter ("To my son the rabbi"), and two leaves of Torah novellae [by other writers. One of these leaves: leaf 14 of an autograph manuscript of Or Yekarot on Tractate Ohalot by R. Asher son of R. Yekutiel Zalman Luria of Mogilev (printed in Jerusalem in 1899 with his commentary on additional tractates of Seder Taharot)].
Complete edited hitherto unprinted composition. As a rule, the content is concise and clear - dissertation on the teachings of the Rishonim and the achronim. The Vilna Gaon's commentary on the Shulchan Aruch is often cited in the manuscript. The composition begins with clarifying the sources of the Rambam and determining the correct version of the Rambam and its commentaries and the ensuing halachic rulings in the Shulchan Aruch and its commentaries. The author notes the specific printing of the Mishne Torah he used for his exposition, for example: "Berdychiv printing" [published in 1808 or 1818]; "From here on, the Amsterdam printing of the Rambam".
The colophons at the beginning and end of the chapters clearly show that the author toiled in studying the Rambam and in editing a clear systematic commentary on his teachings. See for example leaf [122]: "Hilchot Chanukah have been completed clearly clearly with G-d's help and Part 1 of the Rambam has been completed clearly clearly with G-d's help, G-d shall give me the merit to complete Part 2 of the Rambam...". Title at top of leaf [202]: "Rambam Hilchot Shechita clear". On leaf [215]: "Hilchot Shechita have been completed clearly clearly and all of Part 2 of the Rambam has been completed… clearly". Title of leaf [216]: "Rambam with Magid Mishne on the laws of damages to possessions clear with G-d's help" (the author frequently uses the following expressions: "And here it is not appropriate to protract the explanation", "clearly with G-d's help", "clearly clearly with G-d's help").
[345] leaves, approximately 24 cm. Fair condition. Stains and wear. Wear damages to bottom margins, slightly affecting text (the damages to the text of the first leaves are more significant). Minor worming affecting text. Several detached or partially detached leaves. New binding.
Enclosed are another 3 leaves - small scrap of a beginning of a letter ("To my son the rabbi"), and two leaves of Torah novellae [by other writers. One of these leaves: leaf 14 of an autograph manuscript of Or Yekarot on Tractate Ohalot by R. Asher son of R. Yekutiel Zalman Luria of Mogilev (printed in Jerusalem in 1899 with his commentary on additional tractates of Seder Taharot)].