Arbah Turim [Rabbinic code]

Estimate: $6,000–$8,000
Hammer price: $8,500

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

author

JACOB BEN ASHER

printer

Vicenzo Conti

Place

Cremona

Publication

1558

Description

Four parts in one. Title within architectural arch. Letters of opening word of each section within a decorative vignette and woodcut border pieces. Lengthy owner’s inscription and bill of sale in a 16th century Italian hand signed Isaac Sopher, Mantua (verso of title)

references

Vinograd, Cremona 19; Benayahu, Cremona, 20a, p. 203; not in Adams

summary

A fundamental Rabbinic treatise embracing all the laws and customs incumbent both upon an individual and the Community as a whole. Its over-riding authority has been recognised and accepted by Jewish scholars for generations. Rare edition, the JNUL copy incomplete

ff. 117, (3), 91 (1), 59 (3),139 (with four extra blanks not called for by Benayahu or Vinograd.) Title silked, few small paper repairs, f.133 with loss of few words. Modern morocco. Folio

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