Emeth Ve’Emunah [Code of Jewish Law]

AUCTION 24 | Tuesday, June 29th, 2004 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg

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Lot 33

Arobas, Isaac

Emeth Ve’Emunah [Code of Jewish Law]

Divisional title (Hilchoth Yom Tov) within typographic border prior to final section. Text in Hebrew and Italian ff. 7, 288, (16), 36. Dampstaining. Several pages laid to size, nonetheless, an attractive copy. Later calf-backed marbled boards.Thick 12mo Vinograd, Venice 1393

Venice: Ambrosino-Bragadin 1672

Est: $700 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $1,800

The author, Isaac, son of Hananiah Arobas, “Justice and Leader of some Communities of the Maghreb (Morocco),” sought to present the basic texts of Judaism composed by Maimonides and Joseph Karo in both Hebrew and the vernacular for the Jews of Italy. To this end, he gathered here a digest comprising the Thirteen Principles of Faith from Maimonides’ commentary to the Mishnah Sanhedrin; Maimonides’ Sepher Hamitzvoth (Book of Commandments); and a popularized version of Karo’s Shulchan Aruch. Thus the layman is provided with the rudiments of halacha, both dogmatic and practical. The book is prefaced with a laudatory poem by the famous Italian kabbalist R. Moses Zacuto