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

Moses Maimonides Moses son of Maimon Mosche son of Maimon
Sephardim

Mishneh Torah
Prohibitions on Yom Kippur and Shabbat


Córdoba, around 1320-1380
Gold-colored deer skin (fallow deer stag)


Laws of the Foundations of the Torah
Laws of Beliefs (Hebrew: הִלְכּוֹת דְּעוֹת; Laws concerning philosophy)
Laws of Torah Study
Laws of Idolatry and the Laws of the Nations, Laws Regarding the Prohibition of Idolatry
Laws of Repentance



In 1180, Mishneh Torah appeared, a revision of rabbinical legal interpretation in 14 volumes that organized the Mishnah and Torah in a strict logical manner. The work was, among others, heavily criticized by Rabbi Abraham ben David of Posquières, which, also in the context of controversies surrounding his philosophical position, led to the Maimonides dispute. Nonetheless, Maimonides is considered the ultimate authority in the field of religious legal literature. Unlike Maimonides' other significant works, which were written in Arabic, Mishneh Torah is originally written in Hebrew.


Old Hebrew manuscript
Rare and valuable mulberry tree ink.
preserved and restored with beeswax
Use of the ancient Hebrew letters 'Pai' and 'Zai'.
Approximately 700-year-old manuscript on genuine deer hide (hunting).


Contents:
Leader of the Indecisive

The leader of the Unsure also found dissemination in Europe in the 13th century and, despite initial attempts to prohibit it, became one of the central writings in religious and philosophical debates. Particularly, Thomas Aquinas critically engaged with it and developed his doctrine of analogies partly as a response to the negative theology of Dux neutrorum. The reception among Albertus Magnus and later Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa was more benevolent. Spinoza also mostly critically engaged with it. In the 18th century, Moses Mendelssohn and especially the enthusiast Salomon Maimon drew on Maimonides' work to establish a modern Judaism in the spirit of the Enlightenment within the framework of Haskalah. Among the numerous thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries influenced by Maimonides are, for example, Hermann Cohen with his neo-Kantian-ethically infused interpretation, or Leo Strauss, whose interpretation of Maimonides suggested a hidden more radical text meaning and is now mostly viewed critically.


Beautiful and very rare manuscript of the Mishneh Torah, Mishneh Torah concerning the prohibitions on Yom Kippur and Shabbat.
Precious Torah manuscript on gold-colored deer skin (fallow deer) from Córdoba, circa 1320-1380.

I guarantee to you the age and originality.