Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

AUCTION 12 | Tuesday, March 13th, 2001 at 1:00

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

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Lot 49

ASHER BEN YECHIEL (RO”SH)

Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

Second edition. Printer’s device on title (Yaari, Printer’s Marks no. 18). The Tzvi Hirsch Berlin Copy, with his signature in Hebrew and German on title and front free-endpaper, and with his extensive marginal notations. ff. 158. Lightly browned, extensive marginalia. Later blind-tooled chestnut morocco, rebacked, rubbed at edges. Folio Vinograd, Venice 451; not in Adams

Venice: Meir Parenzo for Alvise Bragadin 1552

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

The collection of responsa of R. Asher ben Yechiel is divided into one hundred and eight groups called Kelallim, with reponsa in each dealing with one subject. The responsa reflect the conditions of Jewish life in central and southern Spain. For a discussion of these conditions as apparant from R. Asher’s responsa, see M. Waxman, Vol. II ff.167-169. A manuscript notation on f. 14 states that most all of Tzvi Hirsch Berlin’s extensive marginalia are additional responsa of R. Asher, copied from a later edition.