Shailoth Uteshuvoth MeHaRa”M Mi’Rothenburg [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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MEIR BEN BARUCH OF ROTHENBURG

Shailoth Uteshuvoth MeHaRa”M Mi’Rothenburg [responsa]

FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. Including the Ammendments of Rabbeinu Gershom. Title within historiated woodcut border incorporating printer’s device (Yaari, Printer’s Marks no. 37) ff. 2, 5-114. Leaves 3 and 4 were destroyed during printing and are missing in all copies. Title laid down with small portion of woodcut provided in facsimile, marginal repairs to last few leaves. Browned and stained. Recent boards. Folio Vinograd, Prague 161; Mehlman 753

Prague: Moses ben Bezalel Katz 1608

Est: $700 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $750

The first complete edition containing 1020 Responsa by this supreme arbiter of Halachic authority in Germany. For an exhaustive treatment of the Maharam and his influence from the 13th-century on, see I.A. Agus, Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (1947)