A Majmuni Kodex [Mose Majmuni Torvenykodexe] A Budapesti "Misne Tora" Legszebb Lapjai

Corvina (Budapest): Magyar Helikon, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. g. Elephant folio. 34pp. 68 plates with descriptive paragraphs. Original red cloth with blind stamped menorah in original printed illustrated dust jacket. Facsimile reproduction of a late 13th-century illustrated manuscript from Budapest of Maimonides' encyclopedic work on Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah. This work served as the main compendium of rabbinic halakha until Rabbi Joseph Karo's Shulchan Aruch in the 16th century. Comes with introductory essays on Maimonides and the manuscript's history. Text is in Hungarian. Manuscript pages are in Hebrew. Inscription from previous owner. Head and tail of spine scuffed. Edges and corners chipped. Creasing along endpapers. Dj stained with an inch tear at bottom held together by tape. Dj in overall fair condition. Book in very good condition. R. Moses Maimonides (Rambam) was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure, both during his lifetime and after his death, but generally acknowledged as the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba, Spain but fled as a child from the Almohad persecution. He eventually settled in Egypt where he served as a rabbi, physician and philosopher. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah, his only work not in Arabic, still carries canonical authority, particularly within the Yemenite Jewish community, as the codification of Talmudic law. His other work includes a commentary on the Mishnah entitled Kitab al-Siraj, Kitab al-Fara'I, a book on precepts, and the philosophical work Dalalat al-Ha'irin, known in Hebrew as the Moreh Nevukhim, The Guide to the Perplexed. The major premise is an attempted philosophical/theological reconciliation of the Hebrew Bible and Greek knowledge. This work came to play a central role in all subsequent major controversies over philosophy within the Jewish community during the Middle Ages.