Sepher Ha’Agudah [Halachic compendium arranged in order of the tractates of the Talmud].

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ALEXANDER SUESSLIN HAKOHEN OF FRANKFURT

Sepher Ha’Agudah [Halachic compendium arranged in order of the tractates of the Talmud].

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Title within elaborate architectural arch. Letters of initial words set within vignettes. Printed in double columns. A wide-margined copy. ff. 4, 250. Touch browned in few places, final leaf with neat paper repairs. Bound in Valmadonna-custom maroon blind-tooled calf, spine in compartments and titled in gilt. Folio. Vinograd, Cracow 32.

Cracow: Isaac Prostitz 1571

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,000

The Sepher Ha’Agudah is a widely-popular, authoritative Code, cited extensively by R. Jacob HaLevi Moellin (Mahari”l) and R. Moses Isserles (Ram”a). It was published from a manuscript with corrections supplied by Joseph HaKohen (author of responsa She’erith Yoseph and brother-in-law of the Ram”a). The author of Sepher Ha’Agudah (d. 1348), was a disciple of R. Isaac of Dueren and served as rabbi in Cologne, Worms and Frankfurt. See EJ, Vol. II, cols. 585-6.