Sha’arei Dura - Issue VeHeter [Rabbinic Code]. With commentaries including Mavo Shearim by Nathan ben Shimshon Shapiro.

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Sha’arei Dura - Issue VeHeter [Rabbinic Code]. With commentaries including Mavo Shearim by Nathan ben Shimshon Shapiro.

<<FIRST EDITION>> of Mavo Shearim. Title within historiated border, printer’s device illustrating the Temple on f. 3b. <<Wide-margined copy.>> ff. 110. Browned and stained in places, several leaves remargined and with expert paper repairs, previous owner’s marks. Modern morocco. Folio. Vinograd, Lublin 32; for dating this work see Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book, Vol. II, p. 635.

Lublin: Kalonymus ben Mordechai Jaffe (1574-75)

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

The extensive commentary Mavo Shearim includes the customs of Poland and Russia. For more details on the importance of this commentary, see the comprehensive monograph by R. Eliezer Katzman in Yeshurun, Vol. 13, pp. 617-700; and Vol. 14, pp. 935-964.