Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa]

AUCTION 11 | Tuesday, November 28th, 2000 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 99

MIZRACHI, ELIJAH.

Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa]

FIRST EDITION. An attractive wide margined copy. With signature on title and marginal notes by Abraham Joseph Solomon Graziano (I”SH Ger). Signed by censors at end, including: Luigi da Bologna and Camillo Jaghel ff. 158 (160), lacking as all copies ff. 109-110. Lightly damp-stained in places, signed by censor on verso of final leaf. Later half-calf, rubbed. Folio Vinograd, Const. 217 (records ff.158 complete); Mehlman 758; Yaari, Const. 161; Adams M-1516

Constantinople: Solomon Ya’avetz 1560

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $3,250

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