Shulchan Aruch [Code of Jewish Law]. Four parts in one volume

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 18

KARO, JOSEPH

Shulchan Aruch [Code of Jewish Law]. Four parts in one volume

Second edtion. Four parts in one volume. Four title pages. Printers device on titles (Yaari no. 31). Title letters within decorative woodcut border-piece. ff. 61; 57; 34; 71. Few light damp-stains in places, few inner margins strengthened, paper marginal repair to title of part II, neat repairs to a few leaves, scattered marginal worming, marginalia. Recent hunter cloth boards. Folio Vinograd, Venice 552; not in Adams

Venice: Giovanni Griffio 1567

Est: $10,000 - $15,000

PRICE REALIZED $17,000

A digest of the expansive Beith Yoseph, the Shulchan Aruch (“Prepared Table”) so named by Karo to indicate that he had prepared the material in a manner ready to be “consumed” immediately. It became the Rabbinic Code par excellence Two editions were issued simultaneously; one by Giovanni Griffio and the other at at the House of Cavalli. For details regarding these early printings of the Shulchan Aruch, see: R. Margoliot, in Sinai, vol. XXXVII (1955) pp. 25-35 and R. Y. Nissim in Sinai Sepher Yovel (1958) pp. 29-39. The Cavalli edition of the Shulchan Aruch was sold by Kestenbaum & Company, Sale XII: Important Hebrew Books & Manuscripts from the Library of the London Beth Din (Second Portion), 13th March, 2001, Lot 169