Sefer HaTerumoth [code of commercial law].

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

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Lot 119

SARDI, SAMUEL BEN ISAAC.

Sefer HaTerumoth [code of commercial law].

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Title within garlanded arch with printer's device (see Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks no. 48). ff. 116. A made-up copy, paper repairs to many leaves, few silked, title from a slightly shorter copy, lower portion of which repaired and supplied in facsimile, f.2 soiled. Bound in Valmadonna-custom calf-backed marbled boards. Folio. Vinograd, Salonika 143; Mehlman 792.

Salonika: Abraham ben Mattathias Bath-Sheva (Bassevi) 1596

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

Rare Edition of the first Code of Jewish Law devoted exclusively to commercial law (Dinei Mamonoth). Sepher HaTerumoth is divided into 70 Gates, wherein each case is preceded by a discussion of the Talmudic source, thereafter, differing opinions are presented leading to the final decision taken. The author (c.1185-1255) was a disciple of Nachmanides, halachic queries addressed to his teacher are included here in the Sepher HaTerumoth. According to the title-page, the sponsor of the work, "having borrowed money to acquire the tools of printing" was the celebrated Salonikan halachist R. Samuel de Medina (Maharashda’m). See EJ, Vol. V, col. 643; Vol. XIV, col. 875.