(Tur) Even Ha’ezer [Rabbinic code]

AUCTION 14 | Tuesday, November 13th, 2001 at 1:00

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

Back to Catalogue

<Previous Lot

/447

Next Lot>

Lot 226

JACOB BEN ASHER

(Tur) Even Ha’ezer [Rabbinic code]

With commentary “Beith Yoseph” by Joseph Karo (second edition). Printer’s device on title (Yaari no.32) ff.232. Few light stains in places, neat marginal repairs to title, previous owners inscriptions on title, marginalia. Modern cloth. Folio Vinograd, Venice 499; Adams J-21

Venice: Giorgio di Cavalli 1565

Est: $800 - $1,000

Amram speculates that; “[t]he printers’ mark of Cavalli, the elephant bearing a castle, and its significant motto may be interpreted to indicate how the times were changed. The elephant marches “tarde sed tuto,” slowly but surely, like the march of Enlightenment that led man out of the darkness of the Middle Ages.” See Amram, The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy p.349