(SeMa”K). Amudei Golah-Sepher Mitzvoth Ha’katan [abridgement of Moses of Coucy’s rabbinic code (SeMa”K]

AUCTION 20 | Monday, June 02nd, 2003 at 5:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books from the Library of the Late Salman Schocken (1877-1959)

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ISAAC BEN JOSEPH OF CORBEIL.

(SeMa”K). Amudei Golah-Sepher Mitzvoth Ha’katan [abridgement of Moses of Coucy’s rabbinic code (SeMa”K]

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut border. Bibliographical note in German from Bookseller Marx & Co. Berlin, 1926 tipped in ff.146. Few light stains in places, trace marginal worming on a few leaves, previous owner’s signature on title. Recent vellum. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Const. 67; Yaari, Const. 36; Mehlman 735; not in Adams

Constantinople: ibn Nachmias c. 1510

Est: $7,000 - $9,000

PRICE REALIZED $18,500

A FINE WIDE-MARGINED COPY With the seven-part division corresponding to the seven days of the week, the French Tosafist, Isaac of Corbeil, intended his Code to be of popular usage. It is interspersed with many Agadic passages, moral maxims and ethical teachings which enhanced its appeal. Despite its populist style, the work was accepted as an authoritive halachic source cited by later Codifiers - including the Tur. See M. Waxman, Vol. II, pp. 128-9