Tur Orach Chaim. * And: Tur Yoreh Deah

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 131

JACOB BEN ASHER

Tur Orach Chaim. * And: Tur Yoreh Deah

Two volumes in one ff. 146 (of 148, lacking first two leaves); 122 (this copy with two more leaves in Yoreh Deah than is called for in Vinograd and Haberman). Some staining and foxing, first nine leaves of index repaired affecting some text. Various owners signatures; final leaf of Orach Chaim and titlepage of Yoreh Deah in various Ashkenazic scripts, including Asher B. Moshe Meir...Katzenstein, Yisrael B. Yechezkel of Essenhausen of the Auerbach family of Lublin (dated 1712), Raphael B. Abraham Segal of Milfield (dated 1794) . Extensive marginal notes throughout in an early, contemporary, precise Aschkenazic hand with geometrical diagrams pertaining to Eiruvin (ff. 86b-88b, 90b). Contemporary tooled calf over wooden boards, rubbed and chipped, metal hinges and corner bosses. Sm. Folio Vinograd Venice 54, Haberman Bonberg 72

Venice : Daniel Bomberg 1522

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

RARE BOMBERG EDITION. According to I. Sonne, the Tur “grabbed first place in the book market ” and was prized among Rabbinic scholars during the 15th and 16th centuries. Bomberg began to publish the Tur even before he completed his publication of the Talmud. See “Tiyulim Be-historia U-bibliographia” concerning the Trilogy of the Poskim: Maimonides, Semag, Tur during the first Eighty years of Hebrew printing in Italy , in: Sepher Hayovel ... Alexander Marx (1950) pp. 212-213. THIS COPY CONTAINS IMPORTANT MARGINAL NOTES THROUGHOUT BOTH PARTS. These notes clarify obscure parts of the text, sometimes adding additional responsa (See f. 37a) and citing other authorites. Initial letters of some notes sightly cut by the binder.