Haggahot Maimuniyyot, Meir ha-Kohen, [Italy, ca. 1480-1490]

This volume contains Meir ha-Kohen’s Hagahot Maymuniyot, glosses on Moses ben Maimon’s Mishneh Torah. The manuscript is fragmentary and includes only parts of Sefer Ahavah, Sefer Zemanim and laws of forbidden foods from Sefer Kedushah. Hagahot Maymuniyot is printed in the standard editions of the Mishneh Torah.

Sotheby’s is grateful to Menahem Schmelzer z”l and Benjamin Richler for cataloguing this manuscript.

Provenance

Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 327)

Physical Description

45 leaves on paper (2 blank), 8 x 5 7/8 inches; 204 x 151 mm, written in brown ink in Italian semi-cursive script, paper watermarked with crowned fleur-de-lis (cf. Briquet 7224 [1479-1484]), modern foliation in pencil; first leaf encapsulated with severe loss of text, some ink corrosion throughout with text blocks of most leaves wholly or partially tissue-patched, some marginal foxing, soiling, and repair, library stamps on first and last pages. Modern half brown morocco gilt, early pink wrappers (encapsulated) bound in; text quires mounted on guards.

Literature

Hirschfeld (ms. no. 95)