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Bidding Information
Lot #    15824
Auction End Date    10/24/2006 10:11:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Perush Hilkhot Kiddush ha-Hodesh
Title (Hebrew)    פירוש הלכות קדוש החדש
Author    [First Ed.] R. Obadiah b. David b. Obadiah
City    Constantinople (Istanbul)
Publisher    [Brothers David & Samuel ibn Nahmias
Publication Date    1509
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   First edition. 20 ff., 279:201 ff., wide margins, light age staining, corners rounded. A very good copy loose in contemporary leather boards.
          
Detailed
Description
   A detailed treatise on the Jewish calendar and on astronomy by R. Obadiah b. David b. Obadiah, commentator; born in 1325, according to R. Azulai ("Shem ha-Gedolim," i. 76); in 1341, according to Steinschneider ("Cat. Bodl." col. 2075, No. 6687). The treatise was written as a commentary on Maimonides' "Yad," and published simultaneously with the 1509 first edition of the Rambam. The associated diagrams were not printed and blank spaces for left for future drawing by hand.
          
Paragraph 2    כ דף: פירוש הלכות קדוש החדש... העירני לבי לכתוב עליה ביאורים יפים ומופתים מדוייקים... אני עובדיא בכ"ר דוד ב"ר עובדייא זצ"ל. ה"צורות" (השרטוטים) לא נדפסו, ומקומן נשאר פנוי.
          
Reference
Description
   Fürst, Bibl. Jud. iii. 43; Benjacob, Ozar ha-Sefarim, i. 473, 536; CD-EPI 0150065
        
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Listing Classification
Period
16th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Greece-Turkey:    Checked
  
Subject
Halacha:    Checked
Other:    Astronomy
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica