![DAVID BEN SOLOMON VITAL, called Ha-Rofe ("The Doctor"). Keter Torah [Crown of the Law]. Includes: Hilkot Bedikah [Rules for examination of a slaughtered ox] and a poem in praise of Vital by Solomon ben Mazzal Tob. Constantinople: Eliezer ben Gershon Soncino, 1536.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/NYE/2001_NYE_08509_0337_000(024743).jpg?w=1)
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DAVID BEN SOLOMON VITAL, called Ha-Rofe ("The Doctor"). Keter Torah [Crown of the Law]. Includes: Hilkot Bedikah [Rules for examination of a slaughtered ox] and a poem in praise of Vital by Solomon ben Mazzal Tob. Constantinople: Eliezer ben Gershon Soncino, 1536.
4o (195 x 140 mm). Collation: 1-324. Square title-type, smaller square heading-type, vocalized square type 94H, cursive text-type 82H. 128 leaves. Various paper stocks. 40 lines. Single column. Three-piece white-on-black renaissance woodcut border around title, a repeated typographical flower closing the border at top, woodcut crown above title alluding to its first word, 3 hand diagrams on 4/2v, typographical rules on 23/4r, lung diagram on 23/4v. (Lightly washed, title border shaved at bottom, small tear to two corners.) Modern red morocco gilt (hinges lightly rubbed). Provenance: Adolph Lewisohn; Jewish Theological Seminary of America (bookplate, Christie's New York, 22 May 1986, lot 56).
FIRST EDITION, a fine copy. "A rhymed summary of the 613 commandments, in accordance with the enumeration of Maimonides, plus the seven rabbinical commandments... The works is regarded as a succinct commentary on Sefer ha-Mitzvot of Maimonedes (EJ XVI, 171). RARE ("Opus apud privatos non frequens," Steinschneider loc. cit.). Cowley 155; De Rossi (XVI) 38.244; Steinschneider 4852, 3; Yaari (C)120; Zedner 204.
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FIRST EDITION, a fine copy. "A rhymed summary of the 613 commandments, in accordance with the enumeration of Maimonides, plus the seven rabbinical commandments... The works is regarded as a succinct commentary on Sefer ha-Mitzvot of Maimonedes (EJ XVI, 171). RARE ("Opus apud privatos non frequens," Steinschneider loc. cit.). Cowley 155; De Rossi (XVI) 38.244; Steinschneider 4852, 3; Yaari (C)120; Zedner 204.