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MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES). (RaMBa”M). Mishneh Torah [Code of Jewish Law] Second edition. Text printed in two columns. Text on f. 2r within full historiated woodcut border incorporating winged cherubs and foliage. Woodcut hare following initial word of text. Title letters within decorative foliate woodcut vignettes. Ten large headings with elaborate woodcut surrounds on ff. 12v, 29v, 48v, 99v,152r, 201r, 247v, 253v ff. 371 (of 380 leaves), lacking ff. 1 (printer’s introduction, also lacking in the Hebrew Union College copy), ff. 3-5, 17-19, final leaf of text (f. 379) and final blank; f. 61 repaired lacking some text. Six final leaves of text frayed and repaired affecting text (provided in facsimile). ff. 2, 25-29, 32, 35-38 and 110-29 supplied from other copies. Excision on lower margin of f. 2 affecting text on verso. Owner’s signature on f. 12b: Shlomo b. Yitzchak of Saloniki dated 1613. Some censorship present. Scattered marginalia in various Sephardic hands. 19th-century calf-backed boards. Folio Vinograd, Soncino 39; Goff 77; Thesaurus A-55; Goldstein 59; Offenberg 88; Steinschneider 6513, 2) Wineman Cat. 29 Soncino: Gershom ben Moses Soncino 1490