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Lot #    16801
Auction End Date    1/23/2007 10:20:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Sefer Ha-Mitzvoth
Title (Hebrew)    ספר המצות
Author    [Ms.] R. Moses b. Maimon (Rambam)
City    Yemen
Publication Date    19th cent.
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
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Description		    [126] ff., 238:180 mm., light age staining, ink on thick paper, neat Yeminite script, complete, bound in contemporary leather boards, rubbed and split.
          
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Description		    The Rambam's count of the precepts, Sefer Ha-Mitzvoth with Arabic translation. For hundreds of years the Yemenite Jewish communities followed their traditional ways of secular and religious life, not being influenced by external trends and currents. Some customs in the Yemenite prayer rites go back to the prayer book of R. Saadiah Gaon. From the 16th century on the Kabbalah and especially later its Lurianic school and system found its way to Yemen and influenced Jewish literary production in the areas of commentaries to the Bible, prayers, and liturgic poetry. All of this rich history is reflected in this work.
          
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