Arbah Turim [Rabbinic code]

AUCTION 25 | Monday, October 25th, 2004 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books: The Property of a Gentleman

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Lot 21

JACOB BEN ASHER

Arbah Turim [Rabbinic code]

Four parts in one. Title within architectural arch. Letters of opening word of each section within a decorative vignette and woodcut border pieces. Lengthy owner’s inscription and bill of sale in a 16th century Italian hand signed Isaac Sopher, Mantua (verso of title) ff. 117, (3), 91 (1), 59 (3),139 (with four extra blanks not called for by Benayahu or Vinograd.) Title silked, few small paper repairs, f.133 with loss of few words. Modern morocco. Folio Vinograd, Cremona 19; Benayahu, Cremona, 20a, p. 203; not in Adams

Cremona: Vicenzo Conti 1558

Est: $6,000 - $8,000

PRICE REALIZED $8,500

A fundamental Rabbinic treatise embracing all the laws and customs incumbent both upon an individual and the Community as a whole. Its over-riding authority has been recognised and accepted by Jewish scholars for generations. Rare edition, the JNUL copy incomplete