Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa]

AUCTION 10 | Tuesday, June 27th, 2000 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 169

MIZRACHI, ELIJAH.

Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa]

FIRST EDITION. An attractive wide margined copy. ff. 158 (160), lacking as all copies ff. 109-110. Dampstained in places, trace marginal foxing on a few leaves, small neat repair to title page. Later tan mottled-calf boards, rubbed, lacking lower portion of spine. Folio Vinograd, Const. 217 (records ff.158 complete); Mehlman 758; Yaari, Const. 161; Adams M-1516

Constantinople: Solomon Ya’abetz 1560

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,600

Elijah Mizrachi (c.1450-1526) was one of the most outstanding Rabbinic authorities of the Ottoman Empire. His responsa are of great historic interest, written amidst the turbulence of the Spanish Inquisition, and concern the Jewish exiles who migrated toTurkey. The cancelled leaves 109-10 are extant in only two copies. They contain the author’s protestations concerning his son’s alleged conversion to Islam.