(RaSHB”A). Piskei Chalah [Rabbinic law - the precept of setting aside “chalah”]

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

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(RaSHB”A). Piskei Chalah [Rabbinic law - the precept of setting aside “chalah”]

FIRST EDITION. Some marginal annotations, owner’s signature on final leaf in a Sephardic hand ff.14. Frayed, expertly silked and laid to size, washed, final leaf missing three words. Modern vellum. 8vo Vinograd, Const. 70; Yaari, Const. 84; Adams S-1406

Constantinople: n.p. 1515

Est: $7,000 - $9,000

PRICE REALIZED $7,500

Exceptionally rare monograph published prior to the Rashb"a’s larger works of novellae. The author was the foremost Spanish rabbi of the late 13th-early14th century whose authoritative and highly influential rulings were an important source to Joseph Caro's Shulchan Aruch