Auction 100 – Important Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection
Responsa of Maharam Alashkar – Sabbioneta, 1554 – First Edition
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Responsa of R. Moshe Alashkar. Sabbioneta: Cornelio Adelkind for Tobias Foa, 1554. First edition.
Bakashot by the author are printed at the end of the book.
Section 117 is a critique of Sefer HaEmunot by R. Shem Tov ibn Shem Tov. Maharam Alashkar defends the Rambam against the author of Sefer HaEmunot who opposed philosophy. This section was subsequently reprinted a few years later as an independent work with a divisional title page, added to some copies of the first edition of Sefer HaEmunot (Ferrara, 1556).
The last leaf bears the printer's device of Tobias Foa.
Censorship expurgations of the various declensions of the words "apostate" and "Talmud".
199, [1] leaves. 20 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minute tears to several leaves. New binding.
CB, no. 6424,1; Zedner, p. 575; Roest, p. 846.
Early Printed Books – Italy
Early Printed Books – Italy