Shailoth Uteshuvoth [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 154
Tzahalon, Yom Tov

Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

FIRST EDITION. Title page within typographic border surrounding depiction of the Tabernacle, on verso diagrams of the Temple and the Table with Shewbread; positioning of the Temple on Mount Zion depicted on f.4v ff (9), 223, 25. Tear to f.192. Modern morocco-backed boards. Sm. folio Vinograd, Venice, 1467

Venice: Vendramin 1694

Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $1,000
Of interest are the responsa to the communities of the Orient who sought advice whilst the Author visited them as an emissary from Safed. The work was published by his grandson Yom Tov ben Akiva, who added his own novellae to Tractate Bava Metziah