<<(RABa’N).>> Even Ha’Ezer - Sepher RABa”N [responsa, Halachic novellae and discourses].

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<<(RABa’N).>> Even Ha’Ezer - Sepher RABa”N [responsa, Halachic novellae and discourses].

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Title within historiated woodcut border incorporating printer’s device (Yaari, Printer’s Marks, no. 37). ff. 154. Browned with scattered staining. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Folio. Vinograd, Prague 186.

Prague: Moses ben Bezalel Katz 1610

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $900

This work contributes much to our knowledge of the state of scholarship and way of life of the Jews of France, Bulgaria and especially Germany in the 12th century. A native of Mainz, the author (1090-1170) was an important and well known figure of his age. See M. J. Heller, The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book, Vol. I, pp. 256-7.