JAFFE, MORDECHAI.

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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Lot 16

JAFFE, MORDECHAI.

Levush Ohr Yekaroth [commentary to recanto on the Pentateuch]. * Levush Adar Ha’yakar [commentary on the Laws of Sanctification of the New Month]. * Biurei Yaffeh [commentary on the astronomical “Tzurath Eretz” by Abraham B”R Hiya]. * Levush Pinath Yekarith [additional commentary on Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed] ff. (2), 189; 30; 5; 30. Light stains in places, few marginal repairs on first and last few leaves, neat repairs to opening title, previous owners signature “Moses Margoliouth (of Lvov?)” on titles. Recent gilt-tooled boards gently rubbed at extremities, spine and upper cover detached. Folio Vinograd, Lublin 53 (recording only the first part); Mehlman 829; Adams J-57&58 (recording only first three parts)

Lublin: Kalonymus ben Mordechai Jaffe 1594-5

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $17,000

Comprises the last three “Atires” (Levushim) of the total of ten which comprise Jaffe’s monumental Levush Malchuth, including 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