Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

AUCTION 3 | Tuesday, November 25th, 1997 at 1:00
Fine Hebrew Printed Books Duplicates from the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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Lot 174
MEIR BEN BARUCH (MaHaRa”M) OF ROTHENBURG

Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

FIRST EDITION. Title within 4-part type-ornament border ff. 108, (15), and final blank. Trimmed and stained. Modern boards. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Cremona 15; Benayahu, Cremona 15; Adams M-1045

Cremona: Vicenzo Conti 1557

Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $850
The first of several, differing collections of responsa by this supreme arbiter of Halachic authority in Germany. For an exhaustive treatment of the Maharam and his influence from the 13th-century on, see I.A. Agus, Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (1947)