JAFFE, MORDECHAI

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

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

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Lot 229

JAFFE, MORDECHAI

Levush Ohr Yekaroth. * Levush Adar Ha’yakar [commentary on the Laws of Sanctification of the New Month]. * Biurei Yaffeh [commentary on “Tzurath Eretz” by Abraham B”R Hiya]. * Levush Pinath Yekarith [additional commentary on Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed] ff. (2), 189; 30; 5,(1); 30. Lightly browned and dampstained in places, previous owner’s inscription on title, second unnumbered leaf loose. Contemporary blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards, remnants of clasps and hinges. Folio Vinograd, Lublin 53 (recording only the first part); Mehlman 829; Adams J-57&58 (recording only first three parts)

Lublin: Kalonymus ben Mordechai Jaffe 1594-5

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $7,000

The last three “Atires” (Levushim) of the total of ten which comprise Jaffe’s monumental Levush Malchuth, including commentaries on classic meta-halachic works. As a whole, “the Levush Malchuth is thus not only a code of law which sums up the Halachic scholarship of the day, but rather an entire summa of rabbinic Judaism both halachic and non-halachic.” See L. Kaplan, Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century (1983) p.274