Me’irath Enayim [commentary to Joseph Karo’s Shulchan Aruch: Choshen Mishpat]

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Lot 139

FALK, JOSHUA KATZ.

Me’irath Enayim [commentary to Joseph Karo’s Shulchan Aruch: Choshen Mishpat]

FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. Title within historiated woodcut border incorporating printer’s device (Yaari, Printer’s Marks, no. 37) ff. 321,(1),20. Browned, stained in places, marginal repairs to title with affected portions of woodcut provided in facsimile, marginal repairs to a few leaves, paper repair to final leaf affecting a few letters, scattered marginalia. Later chestnut mottled-calf, spine in compartments, rubbed at extremites. Folio Vinograd, Prague 233

Prague: Moses ben Bezalel Katz 1614

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $900

Falk’s most celebrated work, the Me’irath Enayim is an extensive exposition and elaboration on Shulchan Aruch: Choshen Mishpat, especially the glosses of Moses Isserles. It is published in all editions of the Shulchan Aruch. Falk often acts as the intermediary between Joseph Karo and Isserles where they disagreement arise. His purpose was to counter the numerous scholars who were content to base their opinions on the Shulchan Aruch alone with out investigating the sources. The Me’irath Enayim greatly contributed in making the Shulchan Aruch an authoritative source of Jewish law. See M. Waxman, Vol. II, p. 158