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MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES). RaMBa”M). Mishneh Torah [Code of Law] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Volume II with copious marginalia in differing hands (see description below.) The eighteenth chapter of Hilchoth Tumath Meth, missing in the text, has been pasted in by the printer (f.91r.). See Havlin’s discussion of this paste-in: S.Z. Havlin, On the Printing History of Maimonides’ Code in: Kiryath Sepher Vol. 42 (1967), pp. 509-10 ff. (301 of 347). Vol. I: ff.96. Vol. II: ff.205. Several leaves laid to size; occasional loss of text. Stained. Final four leaves of Vol. I loose. In Vol. II, f.14 torn (missing lower margin affecting a few letters), minor tear to f.26, f.53 semi-detached. Both volumes modern calf (one shorter). Folio Vinograd, Rome 3; Goff 76; Goldstein 9; Offenberg 87; Steinschneider, p. 1869, no. 6513-1; Thes. A17; Wineman Cat. 7a. No copy in Cambridge University; the HUC copy lacks ff.4 Italy: Solomon ben Judah and Obadiah ben Moses (of Rome?) 1475-9