Moses Maimonides משה בן מימון Mosche ben Maimon - Sephardim, Mischne Tora מִשְׁנֶה תּוֹרָה, Prohibitions on Yom Kippur & Shabbat, Deer Skin, Córdoba - 1350

Moses Maimonides משה בן מימון Moshe ben Maimon
Sephardim

Mishneh Torah מִשְׁנֶה תּוֹרָה
Prohibitions on Yom Kippur & on Shabbat

Cordoba, around 1320-1380
Gold-colored red-deer skin

-Hilchot Yesodei ha-Torah (Hebrew: הלכות יסודי התורה; Laws concerning the principles of the Torah)
-Hilchot De'ot (Hebrew: הלכות דעות; Laws on philosophy/ethical thought)
-Hilchot Talmud Torah (Hebrew: הלכות תלמוד תורה; Laws concerning the study of the Talmud)
-Hilchot Avodah Sara u-Chukot ha-Goyim, Laws concerning the prohibition of idol worship and the customs of the nations
-Hilchot T'shuva (Hebrew: הלכות תשובה; Laws of repentance)

1180 saw the Mishneh Torah ("Repetition of the Law"), a revision of rabbinic legal interpretation in 14 volumes, which organized the Mishnah and Torah in a strictly logical order. The work was, among others, harshly criticized by Rabbi Abraham ben David of Posquières, which, also in connection with controversies over its philosophical stance, led to the Maimonides controversy. Nevertheless, Maimonides is regarded as the supreme authority in the field of halakhic literature. Unlike his other major works, which were written in Arabic, Mishneh Torah was originally written in Hebrew.

* Old Hebrew manuscript
* Rare and precious mulberry-tree ink
* preserved and restored with beeswax
* Use of the Old Hebrew letters "Pey" and "Zayin"
* about 700-year-old manuscript on genuine deer skin (hart)

Contents:
“Guide for the Perplexed”

The Guide for the Perplexed spread in Europe in the 13th century and became one of the central writings in religious and philosophical debates, despite initial prohibitions. In particular, Thomas Aquinas engaged with it critically and developed his theory of analogy partly in response to the negative theology of the Dux neutrorum. It was received more favorably earlier by Albertus Magnus, and later by Meister Eckhart and Nikolaus of Kues. Spinoza also engages with it critically. In the 18th century Moses Mendelssohn and especially Salomon Maimon drew on Maimonides’ work to establish a modern Judaism in the spirit of the Enlightenment. Among the numerous thinkers influenced by Maimonides in the 19th and 20th centuries are, for example, Hermann Cohen with his neo-Kantian ethically infused reading, and Leo Strauss, whose Maimonides interpretation posited a hidden radical sense of the text and is now commonly viewed with critique.

Beautiful and absolutely rare manuscript of Mishneh Torah מִשְׁנֶה תּוֹרָה on the prohibitions on Yom Kippur and Shabbat.
Precious Torah manuscript on gold-colored deer hide from Córdoba, ca. 1320-1380.

I guarantee you its age and originality.