Mishpatei Shmuel [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 176

KELAI, SAMUEL BEN MOSES

Mishpatei Shmuel [responsa]

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural form oval cartouche framed by a decorative woodcut floral border. Printers device on verso of final leaf, obscured by ink-stain (see Yaari’s Printers Marks no. 49). The Tzvi Hirsch Berlin Copy, with his signature on title page. ff. 181,(2). Stains in places, scattered marginslia, ownership inscriptions on title page. Contmporary vellum, rebacked. Folio Vinograd, Venice 879; not in Adams

Venice: Daniel Zanneti 1598

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $1,200

The highly wrought title-page was a hallmark of the Zanetti family of printers. The author was the son-in-law of BENJAMIN BEN MATTITHIAH (OF ARTA), the author of Sepher Benyamin Ze’ev, and a disciple of R. David Cohen of Corfu. The title page of this volume also bears the ownership inscription and signature of R. Issachar Baer Jeiteles, dated 1654. A member of the prominent Prague Family, Issachar Baer served as leader of the Prague community from 1666 until his death in 1685.