Mirkevet HaMishneh, commentary on the Book of Devarim (Mishneh Torah), by Don Yitzchak Abarbanel. Sabbioneta: Tobias Foa, 1551. First edition.

Illustrated title frame.

Censorship expurgations (many lines deleted on several leaves; on p. 110b about half the page is deleted), with deleted text supplied by hand within text or in margins (supplied text in margins partially trimmed).

Ownership inscription on title page: "This is my name and remembrance forever, Yaakov son of R. Moshe Pories". Another signature at top of title page, deleted with ink.

145, [1] leaves. 29 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming in many places, affecting text, mostly repaired with tape. New binding.

First Hebrew book printed in Sabbioneta (Italy).

With Tobias Foa's printers' device on final page in a circular frame, next to another printer's device of R. Yosef son of R. Yaakov of Padua, as in the copy recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book (some copies have the printer's device of Tobias Foa only). See: A. Yaari, Diglei HaMadpisim HaIvriyim, Jerusalem 1944, nos. 19, 20-21.

CB, no. 5302,4.