<<(RI’F).>> Sepher Halachoth Rav Alfas [Rabbinic code]. With Mordechai and commentaries.

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ALFASI, ISAAC BEN JACOB

<<(RI’F).>> Sepher Halachoth Rav Alfas [Rabbinic code]. With Mordechai and commentaries.

Complete in three volumes. Title pages within woodcut architectural borders, opening words within white-on-black decorative woodcut vignettes. Collation and condition report available upon request. Uniform modern calf. Thick folio. Vinograd, Venice 34.

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1521

Est: $30,000 - $40,000

PRICE REALIZED $34,000

<<EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND IMPORTANT EDITION.>> The RI”F is the most significant Halachic compendium prior to the Yad HaChazakah of Maimonides and remains an important and widely admired Code. R. Joseph Caro regarded Alfasi’s scholarship with the utmost respect and determined the laws in his Shulchan Aruch upon his authority.