Sepher Agur [Jewish laws and precepts]

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Lot 149

LANDAU, JACOB BEN JUDAH.

Sepher Agur [Jewish laws and precepts]

Second edition. Title within ornate arches. Initial letters of opening word within white on black decorative woodcut vignettes. Signatures of several owners. On title in Italian hand: “Abraham b. Joseph of Pisa.” In Ashkenazic hand: “Inherited from the rabbinical judges here from the estate of R. Samuel Cohen…” On f. 2r. another ex libris This copy has only ff. 96. (According to Vinograd, there should be ff. 102. Missing pages of table of contents at end.) Title torn. Dampstaining. Half morocco boards. Part of spine missing. 4to Vinograd, Rimini 6; Adams L-107; no copy in the JNUL

Rimini: Gershom Soncino 1525

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

The Agur contains fourteen hundred and thirty nine sections, following the order of the Tur. It deals largely with ritual, the laws of Sabbath and the Festivals. It was the last rabbinic code written by a German scholar before the Shulchan Aruch was compiled. R. Jacob Landau’s purpose was to add the decisions of the later German scholars, such as R. Jacob Moelin (Maharil) and R. Israel Isserlein, which were omitted by Jacob ben Asher in his Tur