Halachoth Rav Alfas [Rabbinic code]. On Tractate Shabbath- from the middle of perek shemonah sheratzim through to the middle of Perek Chavith (Tanya Nachum Ish Galya Omer…)

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Lot 286

(ALFASI, ISAAC BEN JACOB (RI”F))

Halachoth Rav Alfas [Rabbinic code]. On Tractate Shabbath- from the middle of perek shemonah sheratzim through to the middle of Perek Chavith (Tanya Nachum Ish Galya Omer…)

Hebrew Manuscript in large square Spanish script. Brown ink On Vellum. Headings and Hadran at end of chapters in larger script. Gathrings of four leaves per quire. Pricking on inner and outer margins. Horizontal and vertical ruling. Vellum treated such that both hair and flesh sides are smooth. ff. (32). Recently paginated in pencil. Corners dampstained, several margins trimmed with early and late marginal notes in various Sephardic cursive hands, several margins trimmed (possibly for Mezuzoth). Unbound. 4to

(Spain): 13th Century

Est: $10,000 - $15,000

An Important Early Spanish Manuscript of the RI”F. The RI”F is the most important halachic compendium prior to the Yad Ha’Chazakah of the Rambam. The work remains a vital and widely admired code. It influenced not only Maimonides, but pervades all halachic literature until modern times. R. Joseph Karo regarded Alfasi’s scholarship with utmost respect and determined the laws in his Shulchan Aruch upon his authority. The present manuscript contains variances from the published version, some emendations by the Bach (R. Joel Sirkes) and the published Hagahoth Me’Alfas Yashan conform to the text of this manuscript. In some instances this manuscript makes important additions. According to Professor Shlomo Zucker of Jerusalem, the codicological and paleographical features of the manuscript indicate that it was written in the years between 1230-1280.