Levush Malchuth [Elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch]
AUCTION 16 |
Tuesday, June 25th,
2002 at 1:00
Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din
Lot 151
JAFFE, MORDECHAI BEN ABRAHAM.
Levush Malchuth [Elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch]
Venice: Giovanni Calioni 1620
Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $1,100
A Halachic work issued as a “midway between two extremes: the lengthy Beith Yoseph of Karo on the one hand, and the Shulchan Aruch with Isserles’ Mappah, which was too brief on the other,.”EJ IX cols.1263-4. In total, the work contains ten “Attires” (Levushim), including Jaffe’s 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