Shulchan Aruch [Code of Jewish Law]. Four parts in one volume.

Auction 94 | Thursday, June 17th, 2021 at 11:00am

Rare & Excellent Hebrew Printed Books: From the Library of Arthur A. Marx

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Lot 231

KARO, YOSEPH.

Shulchan Aruch [Code of Jewish Law]. Four parts in one volume.

Second edition. Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes, opening word of each section within decorative woodcut border-piece incorporating printers’ device (cf. Yaari no. 33). ff. 62; 56; 34; 71; (9). Several leaves remargined, lightly stained in places. Modern morocco. Folio. Vinograd, Venice 553.

Venice: Giorgio di Cavalli 1567

Est: $10,000 - $15,000

PRICE REALIZED $8,500

A digest of the expansive Beith Yoseph, the Shulchan Aruch (“Prepared Table”) so named by Karo to indicate that he had prepared the material in a manner ready to be consumed immediately. It has become the Rabbinic Code par excellence. Two editions were issued simultaneously: The present one at the House of Cavalli and another by Giovanni Griffio. For details regarding the first printings of the Shulchan Aruch, see: R. Margoliot, in Sinai, Vol. 37 (1955) pp. 25-35 and R. Y. Nissim in Sinai Sepher Yovel (1958) pp. 29-39.