Levush Malchuth [elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch]

AUCTION 9 | Tuesday, March 28th, 2000 at 1:00

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JAFFE, MORDECHAI BEN ABRAHAM.

Levush Malchuth [elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch]

Third edition. Four parts in two volumes. Divisional title pages. A I:Orach Chaim: Levush Hatechleth Vehachur ff. 201, (2). II: Yoreh De’ah: Levush Atereth Zahav ff. 148, (2). III: Even Ha’ezer: Levush Butz Ve’argaman ff. 87. IV: Choshen Mishpat: Levush Ir Shushan ff. 162, (2). Lightly browned, scattered foxing and dampstaining. Uniform elaborately blind-tooled brown calf over wooden boards, spine in compartments, rubbed. With clasps and remnants of hinges. Folio Vinograd, Venice 1122-25

Venice: Giovanni Calioni 1620

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,500

An Attractive Set in a Striking Binding. A Halachic work issued as a “midway between two extremes: the lengthy Beith Yoseph of Karo on the one hand, and the Shulchan Aruch with Isserles’ Mappah, which was too brief on the other.” EJ, IX cols.1263-4. In total, the work contains ten “Attires” (Levushim), including Jaffe’s commentaries on classic meta-halachic works. As a whole, “the Levush Malchuth is thus not only a code of law which sums up the Halachic scholarship of the day, but rather an entire summa of rabbinic Judaism both halachic and non-halachic.” See L. Kaplan, Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century (1983) p.274