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ARISTOTLE. Sefer ha-Midot. Hebrew translation by Meir Alguades with commentary by Isaac ben Moses Satanov. [11], 75 [i. e,. 74]; [1], 76-151 [i. e., 150] leaves. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 19th-century cloth, spine faded, ends worn, short crack at top of front joint; contents toned, free endpapers browned. Berlin: Orientalische Buchdruckerey, 1790-91
First edition in Hebrew of the Nicomachean Ethics, translated by the Castilian Jewish royal physician Alguades (d. 1410?) with extensive commentary by the Haskalah scholar Satanov (1732-1804) based on unpublished texts by Joseph ben Shemtov and Moses Almosnino. EJ II, 624-25; Sarton III, 1384; Steinschneider, Die hebräischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters, pages 209-16.
