Commentarium Manuscriptum in Rabbi Mosis Maimonidis. Tractum More Nebuchim sive Doctor Perplexorum. / Perush Avravanel `al sefer Moreh nebukhim le-rabenu Mosheh ben Maymun, asher `ad `atah hayah ketav yad hatum ... hosaati le-or `olam ani Mosheh Yisrael ga-Lewi Landa we-hosafti `alayv he arot asher qaraati be-shem Moreh li-sdaqah

Prague: M. I. Landau, 1831. Hardcover. fair. 4to. Part 1: vi,81 leaves. Part 2: 58 leaves. Three quarter leather over black cloth. Opposing Hebrew and Latin title pages. Book is extremely scarce, as OCLC lists only four libraries worldwide that own this item. Front board missing. Backstrip worn away. Minor chipping to somne edges of front endpaper. Small stamp on foot of front endpaper. Minor browning to pages due to age. Exterior in fair, interior in good condition. Isaac Abarbanel was a fifteenth and early sixteenth century Iberian Jewish scholar and political (truncated) leader, exiled from Spain in 1492. Over the course of his career he worked for the governments of Portugal, Castile, Naples and Venice. He authored a massive biblical commentary as well as works on Jewish philosophy and theology.

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.

Moses Israel Landau was an early 19th century Austrian printer, publisher, and lexicographer who established an important printing-press in Prague. (Inventory #: 20462)