Sefer Mitzvot, Negative and Positive Commandments - Praecepta mosaica sexcenta atque tredecim - Kitzur S'mag (Abridgement of Sefer Mitzvot Gadol) by Moshe miKotsi [Moïse de Coucy], by an anonymous author, with Latin translation and supplements by Sebastian Münster. Basel: Henricus Petrus, [1533]. Hebrew and Latin. This is the first edition of Kitzur S'mag. A polemic arose regarding the identity of its author. No manuscripts of this composition were known and it was discovered for the first time in this edition [followed by repeated editions, some include commentaries by various rabbis]. Some thought that R. Moïse de Coucy, author of the S'mag, abridged the book himself (as the Chida wrote). However, others claimed that Sebastian Münster wrote the book to scoff the Jews, since he wrote in the introduction to the Latin part of the book that he printed it "to show how the eyes of the Jews are blind and their hearts are closed to understanding, in that they follow the Oral Law". Some assert that the book should be destroyed and that it was put on the "Jewish bookshelves" by an unfortunate mistake. At the end of the Hebrew part, Münster added two pages containing basic Christian doctrines. In his article "Kitzur HaS'mag L'Mi" (Moriah, Year 16, Tamuz 1988, p. 34 and on), R. Avraham Chavatzelet claims that the author was apparently expelled from Portugal in 1497. See enclosed material. The two leaves with Christian doctrine were destroyed or torn out of many copies (by Jews who owned the book). They are complete in this copy. Handwritten Latin inscription on the title page of the Latin part. [245] leaves. 14.5 cm. Good condition. Few stains. Light-colored high-quality paper. Adorned contemporary leather binding, worn and damaged.
Sefer Mitzvot, Negative and Positive Commandments - Praecepta mosaica sexcenta atque tredecim - Kitzur S'mag (Abridgement of Sefer Mitzvot Gadol) by Moshe miKotsi [Moïse de Coucy], by an anonymous author, with Latin translation and supplements by Sebastian Münster. Basel: Henricus Petrus, [1533]. Hebrew and Latin. This is the first edition of Kitzur S'mag. A polemic arose regarding the identity of its author. No manuscripts of this composition were known and it was discovered for the first time in this edition [followed by repeated editions, some include commentaries by various rabbis]. Some thought that R. Moïse de Coucy, author of the S'mag, abridged the book himself (as the Chida wrote). However, others claimed that Sebastian Münster wrote the book to scoff the Jews, since he wrote in the introduction to the Latin part of the book that he printed it "to show how the eyes of the Jews are blind and their hearts are closed to understanding, in that they follow the Oral Law". Some assert that the book should be destroyed and that it was put on the "Jewish bookshelves" by an unfortunate mistake. At the end of the Hebrew part, Münster added two pages containing basic Christian doctrines. In his article "Kitzur HaS'mag L'Mi" (Moriah, Year 16, Tamuz 1988, p. 34 and on), R. Avraham Chavatzelet claims that the author was apparently expelled from Portugal in 1497. See enclosed material. The two leaves with Christian doctrine were destroyed or torn out of many copies (by Jews who owned the book). They are complete in this copy. Handwritten Latin inscription on the title page of the Latin part. [245] leaves. 14.5 cm. Good condition. Few stains. Light-colored high-quality paper. Adorned contemporary leather binding, worn and damaged.
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