Sepher Ha’agudah [Halachic compendium based upon Talmudic decisions]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $900

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

ALEXANDER SUESSLIN HAKOHEN OF FRANKFURT.

printer

Isaac Prostitz

Place

Cracow

Publication

1571

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within elaborate architectural arch. The Mayer Sulzberger copy

references

Vinograd, Cracow 32; not in Adams

summary

Published from a somewhat unreliable manuscript with corrections supplied by Joseph Hakohen (brother-in-law of Moses Isserles)

ff. 4, 250. Signed by censors at end, censored passages replaced in an early hand. Browned, wormed in places. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with various historiated rolls including central depiction of King David in prayer on upper cover, lacks clasps, rebacked. Folio

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