(RaSHB”A). Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

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(RaSHB”A). Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

Second edition. Present with indices (missing from most copies), additional title. Wide-margined copy ff. (16), 216. Signed by censors. modern cloth spine cracked, Early owners signatures inclding the communal leader Yeshaia Vermeiz of Metz. Scattered marginal notes in a 20th century hand citing the Shaagat Aryeh. Folio. Vinograd, Bologna 14; Mehlman 693 (incomplete); Adams S-1407

Bologna: The Company of Silk-Weavers 1539

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,300

The author was the foremost Spanish rabbi of the late 13th-14th century whose works are studied in al major Yeshivot to this day. As a respondent, the RaSHB”A answers inquiries directly, without unneccessary lengthy scholastic discussion. The number of his responsa, including this pseudo-Nachmanides collection, reaches well over three thousand, with inquries addressed from all parts of the world, and touching upon all phases of law - religious, family and civil, as well as theological concerns. See M. Waxman, History of Jewish Literature (1933) Vol. II pp.165-167