Arba’ah Turim.
AUCTION 75 |
Thursday, March 08th,
2018 at 1:00 PM
Auction of Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Antiquities, Ceremonial Objects & Graphic Art
Lot 204
JACOB BEN ASHER
Arba’ah Turim.
Augsburg: Chaim ba’r David, et al. 1540
Est: $18,000 - $22,000
PRICE REALIZED $18,000
<<Provenance:>> S. Schocken - Sotheby’s, Judaica. 4th December, 2014; Lot 50.
A fundamental Rabbinic treatise embracing all the laws and customs incumbent both on an individual and the community as a whole. Its overriding authority has been recognized and accepted by Jewish scholars for generations.
The publisher praises this edition on the title-page as follows: “All previous editions of the Turim have faults and are crippled… especially the last two parts… I called upon my son-in-law Yoseph bar Yakar and told him… you are a scholar, dig into the depths of the halacha… you must repair the problems. …We obtained a Tur that was checked and corrected by our teacher, HaGaon R. Abraham of Prague the “Light of our Generation” and compared every page two or three times.”
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