Arba’ah Turim ["Four Columns" - Code of Law]

AUCTION 79 | Thursday, November 15th, 2018 at 1:00 PM

The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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JACOB BEN ASHER.

Arba’ah Turim ["Four Columns" - Code of Law]

<<DELUXE COPY, PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER.>> Title within elaborate architectural arch. This copy with the two rare leaves containing calculations pertaining to the calendar inserted between ff. 53-54. Plus manuscript leaf in a clear Ashkenazi hand dated 1686 at the end of Yoreh Deah (f. 66b) with formula and explanations in the form of two hands used to calculate the various Tekufoth. ff. 6, 9-53, (2), 54-80, 1-66, 1-42, 1-104. Variously stained in places, outer margineof title trimmed and neatly repaired with small portion of border added in pen-and-ink. Bound in Valmadonna-custom chestnut calf decorated in blind and with gilt accents, spine titled in gilt. Folio. Vinograd, Riva di Trento 18.

Riva Di Trento: Joseph Ottolenghi 1560

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

<<RARE, BIBLIOPHILIC EDITION. PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER.>> A fundamental Halachic treatise embracing all the laws and customs incumbent both on an individual and the community as a whole. The overriding authority of the Arba’ah Turim has been accepted by rabbinic scholars for centuries. See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Colored Paper no. 18.