Sepher Agur [laws and precepts].

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

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Lot 80

LANDAU, JACOB.

Sepher Agur [laws and precepts].

Second edition. Title within architectural arch. Initial letters of opening word within white-on-black decorative woodcut vignettes. This copy contains the rare final four leaves of riddles (Sepher Chazon) following the index. Few marginal notes. ff. 102. Foliated in recent red ink, dampstained, title, laid down. Bound in Valmadonna-custom blind-tooled chestnut calf, spine titled in gilt. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Rimini 6.

Rimini: Gershom Soncino 1526

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

<<GERSHOM SONCINO’S ISSUE OF A FUNDAMENTALLY IMPORTANT CODE OF HALACHAH.>> The final Halachic Code composed by a German Rabbinic scholar prior to the compilation of the Shulchan Aruch. The Sepher Agur follows the order of the Tur and contains 1,439 sections, primarily focusing upon ritual, the laws of the Sabbath and the Festivals. The author’s purpose was to add the decisions of the later German scholars, such as Jacob Moelin and Israel Isserlein, which had been omitted by Jacob ben Asher’s Tur.