(MaHaRa”M) OF ROTHENBURG. Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

AUCTION 19 | Tuesday, March 11th, 2003 at 1:00

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Lot 154

MEIR BEN BARUCH

(MaHaRa”M) OF ROTHENBURG. Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

FIRST EDITION. Title within four-part historiated border ff. 108, (15). Stained in places, inscriptions on verso of title and final leaf. Modern blind-tooled brown morocco. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Cremona 15; Benayahu, Cremona 15; Adams M-1045

Cremona: Vicenzo Conti 1557

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,600

The first of several, differing collections of responsa by this supreme arbiter of Halachic authority in Germany. For an exhaustive treatment of the Mahara”m and his influence from the 13th-century on, see I.A. Agus, Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (1947)