Mishneh Torah L’Rambam with the Hasagot HaRava”d, Magish Mishneh and the Kesef Mishneh commentary of Rabbi Yosef Karo. Venice, [1574]. With hundreds of handwritten glosses.
Specifications: Volume one: Sefer Mada, Ahava and Zemanim. [21] 306 leaves [missing the title page and ten concluding leaves], about 28 cm.
Unique features: There are hundreds of handwritten glosses throughout the book. The glosses were written by a number of writers soon after the book was printed, at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries. The many glosses include text variations, some references, and lengthy scholarly comments. The text of this edition of the Rambam is considered particularly well proofread, and it seems that the writer compared the text in this edition to another version that he had.
One gloss notes that the book had been in the beit medrash of Rabbi Eliyahu Shmama, in other words, in Damascus or Aleppo. The glosses have only been inspected superficially.
Condition: Fine. Most of the comments and glosses are legible and clear. Aging stains. Not bound.