Tur, Yoreh De’ah

AUCTION 26 | Monday, November 22nd, 2004 at 1:00

Exceptional Printed Books, Sixty-Five Hebrew Incunabula: The Elkan Nathan Adler-Wineman Family Collection

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Lot 12

JACOB BEN ASHER OF TOLEDO

Tur, Yoreh De’ah

ff. 5, chaps. 203-235 the laws of menustration and vows, (of ff. 92). Each leaf laid down, and to size, with significant loss of text. Modern vellum-backed marbled boards. Folio Vinograd Mantua 8; Goff 55; Cohen (YU) 5; Goldstein 13; Offenberg 70; Steinschneider p. 5500 no.20; Thes. A-4 ; Tishby 25; Wineman Cat. 12. No copy in Cambridge University or HUC. The JNUL copy possesses 10 leaves only; JTSA copy possesses 40 leaves

Mantua-Ferrara: Abraham ben Solomon Conat of Mantua and Abraham ben Chaim of Pesaro 1477

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,500

See the extensive description of this edition in Gershon Cohen’s Hebrew Incunabula [in the]Yeshiva University Library (1984) pp. 17-21. According to Cohen, “It is almost certain” that YU has the only complete copy extant. The fonts designed by Conat’s press imitated the style of medieval manuscripts. Conat did not complete this Tur (publishing only the first 31 leaves), the project was completed in Ferrara by Abraham ben Chaim de Tintori, using Conat’s fonts with improvements