(MaHaRa”M of Rothenburg). Shailoth U’Teshuvoth [responsa]

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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Lot 97

MEIR BEN BARUCH

(MaHaRa”M of Rothenburg). Shailoth U’Teshuvoth [responsa]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Title within four-part historiated border. Wider margins. Signed by censors. Ownership signatures including Chizkiya b. Shlomo Anshel. ff. 108, (15). Few leaves with slight marginal wear, stained in places, title with minute worming repaired on verso. Bound in Valmadonna-custom chestnut blind-tooled calf, titled in gilt on spine. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Cremona 15.

Cremona: Vicenzo Conti 1557

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,100

The first of several, differing collections of responsa by this supreme arbiter of Halachic authority in Germany. For an exhaustive treatment of the Mahara”m and his influence from the 13th-century and on, see I. A. Agus, Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (1947).