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First edition; small 4to (21 x 16 cm); modern grey cloth with gilt floral device to upper cover, printer's device to title page, woodcut floriated initials and tailpieces, two woodcut diagrams and two tables, small loss to upper right corner of title and some loss to margins of index leaf, very minor worming to upper right corner throughout, chips to edges of the last leaf, faint waterstains throughout; text in Latin and Hebrew; a very good copy. First edition of Gentius's Latin translation of 'Hilkhot De'ot', from the first book of Maimonides's 'Mishneh Torah', with a commentary. 'Hilkhot De'ot' is part of the monumental work 'Mishneh Tora'. Book one, 'Sefer Madah', is comprised of several chapters in which Maimonides outlines the rules of ethical behaviour in relation to the halakhic law, interestingly applying Aristotelian virtues to a Jewish legal context. This is Gentius's first publication and one of the earliest translations of a complete section of Maimonides's extensive compendium of Jewish law into Latin, beautifully printed in parallel with the original Hebrew. Georgius Gentius (1618-1687) was a German Lutheran orientalist who studied in Leiden, and later with Amsterdam rabbis; two of them, R. Isaac da Fonseca Aboab and R. Moses d'Aguilar, contributed to this edition with two laudatory poems. In the introduction Gentius praises Maimonides. This edition is beautifully illustrated with attractive diagrams and tables showing the relationship between vices and virtues. Heller (The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book) Vol. 1, pp. 564-565.

First edition of Gentius's Latin translation of Hilkhot De'ot, from the first book of Maimonides's Mishneh Torah, with a commentary. This is Gentius's first publication, and one of the earliest translations of a complete section of Maimonides's extensive compendium of Jewish law into Latin, beautifully printed in parallel with the original Hebrew. Moses ben Maimon (11381204) was a Jewish philosopher, astronomer, personal physician to Saladin, and a prominent Torah scholar. His Mishneh Torah, compiled between 1168 and 1177, is regarded as "the first complete classification of the Mosaic and rabbinical laws" (Jewish Encyclopaedia), and established Maimonides's reputation as "the authority par excellence" on the subject: although strongly criticised by some upon publication, "his great work on jurisprudence was in its form, method, style, scope, and structure absolutely unprecedented, in fact revolutionary. It became the benchmark for all subsequent writing on Jewish jurisprudence" (Seeskin, p. 35). Hilkhot De'ot ('Laws of ethics or character development') constitutes the second section of the Book of Knowledge, in which Maimonides outlines the rules of ethical behaviour in relation to the law, interestingly applying Aristotelian virtues to a Jewish legal context. Georgius Gentius (1618-1687) was a German Lutheran orientalist who studied in Leiden, and later with Amsterdam rabbis; two of them, y R. Isaac da Fonseca Aboab and R. Moses d'Aguilar, contributed to this edition with two laudatory poems. In the introduction, Gentius praises Maimonides. This edition is also beautifully illustrated with attractive diagrams and tables showing the relationship between vices and virtues. Heller, p. 565; Katchen 92; STCN 097754110; USTC 1014316. J. I. Dienstag, "Christian Translators of Maimonides 'Mishneh Torah' into Latin", in Saul Lieberman and Arthur Hyman, eds., Salo Wittmayer Baron Jubilee, Volume 1, 1974; K. Seeskin, The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides, 2006. Small quarto (193 x 144 mm). With printer's device to title page, woodcut floriated initials and tailpieces, 2 woodcut diagrams and 2 tables. Recent quarter calf and marbled boards, vellum tips, spine ruled gilt in compartments, red morocco label. Contents toned, initial and final leaves a little soiled and foxed, but still perfectly legible, a few chips and short tears to lower outer margin of the first three gatherings, without loss of text. A very nice and generally clean copy.