Levush Malchuth [Elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch]

AUCTION 17 | Tuesday, November 12th, 2002 at 1:00

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Lot 229

JAFFE, MORDECHAI BEN ABRAHAM.

Levush Malchuth [Elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch]

Third edition. Four parts complete in two volumes. Divisional title pages I:Orach Chaim: Levush Hatechleth Vehachur ff. 201, (2). II: Yoreh De’ah: Levush Atereth Zahav ff. 148, (2). III: Even Ha’ezer: Levush Butz Ve’argaman ff. 87. IV: Choshen Mishpat: Levush Ir Shushan ff. 162, (2). Recent uniform tan roan-backed boards. Folio Vinograd, Venice 1122-25

Venice: Giovanni Calioni 1620

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $850

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