(RYBa”SH). Teshuvoth Harav [responsa]

AUCTION 23 | Tuesday, March 30th, 2004 at 1:00

Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of the Jews College Library, London The Third Portion

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Lot 125

ISAAC B”R SHESHETH PERFET

(RYBa”SH). Teshuvoth Harav [responsa]

FIRST EDITION. Title within four-part ornamental border Folio. ff. 282, 10, 11,(lacking final blank). Stained and wormed in places, opening leaf of index torn and crudely repaired with loss of some text. Leaf prior to index with manuscript listing by previous owner of the books in his library (in a 17th century Sephardic hand). Final leaf contains a lengthy scholarly note pertaining to the beginning of Tractate Megillah (in a 16th century Sephardic hand). Modern cloth. Sm. folio Vinograd, Const. 193; Yaari, Const. 145; Adams I-179

Constantinople: Eliezer Soncino 1546

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,400

One of the leading scholars of his day, the Ryba”sh was a disciple of R. Nissim Gerondi and a colleague of Don Hasdai Crescas. He left his native Spain in 1391 when the great massacres broke out and settled in Algiers. His Teshuvoth Harav contains five hundred and eighteen responsa, dealing with all phases of the Law. Unlike his predecessors, the Ryba”sh wrote his responsa at length, basing his decisions on specific documentation from the sources. The collection is particularly important for the social history of the Jews in 14th-century Spain and North Africa. The work was originally sold in single gatherings, it proved to be the last book printed by Soncino in Turkey