Sepher Agur [Halachic Code].

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LANDAU, YA’AKOV.

Sepher Agur [Halachic Code].

Third edition. Printer’s device on title-page. <<With the rare final four leaves>> (Sepher Chazon) usually lacking from all other copies. Title page with signatures and inscriptions, one of which is dated 1595. ff. 132, (4). Stained, previous owner’s marks, outer corner of title clipped, various paper repairs, especially final few leaves. Modern calf. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 261.

Venice: Cornelio Adelkind for Marco Antonio Giustiniani 1546

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

The last rabbinic code written by a German scholar before the Shulchan Aruch was compiled, the Sepher Agur follows the order of the Tur and contains fourteen hundred and thirty nine sections, primarily focusing upon ritual, the laws of the Sabbath and the Festivals. The author’s intention was to add the decisions of the later German scholars, such as the Mahari’l and R. Yisrael Isserlein, which has been been omitted by R. Ya’akov ben Asher’s Tur.