Description: Sexcenta & Tredecim Praecepta Mosaica, a Maimonide ex Pentateucho [613 COMMANDMENTS IN HEBREW AND LATIN] [BOOK BLOCK ONLY] Author: Maimonides, Moses; Johannes Leusden (trans.) Title: Sexcenta & Tredecim Praecepta Mosaica, a Maimonide ex Pentateucho [613 COMMANDMENTS IN HEBREW AND LATIN] [BOOK BLOCK ONLY] Publication: Utrecht: Francisci Halma (Francis Halma), 1686 Edition: First edition Description: Softcover. Octavo. [3]. 56pp. Title page illustrated with decorative and deatiled woodlock printer's device. The work is a detailed list of the 613 Jewish laws, codified in the Hebrew bible, as presented according to Maimonides, in his work Sefer Mitzvot (The Book of Commandments). Here the laws are presented side by side in Hebrew and Latin, in a two-column format, and translated by Calvinist orrientalist and scholar Johannes Leusden (1624-1699). The laws are divide into two groups, the first consisting of the 248 obligatory commandments, and the second group containing the final 365 prohibitive commandments. The front includes two pages of introductory text from translator Johannes Leusden, with decorative woodblock initials. Although the work is complete in itself, the work was originally bound with a collection of dissertations on the Hebrew bible by Leusden, titled "Philologus Hebraeus" issued in Utrecht by printer Francis Halma the same year.Text throughout in Latin and Hebrew.Disbound book block with some sporadic minor to light water stains to the title page and the rest of the text (mostly in the margins). In very good- condition overall. vg-. Seller ID: 48545 Subject: Judaica We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. Terms All orders ship within two business days. Standard mail is USPS Priority Mail. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
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Author: Maimonides, Moses; Johannes Leusden (trans
Publisher: Francisci Halma (Francis Halma
Year Printed: 1686
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Language: English
Original/Facsimile: Original
