Tur, Choshen Mishpat

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 51

JACOB BEN ASHER OF TOLEDO.

Tur, Choshen Mishpat

Third edition. First Spanish edition ff. 45 (of 272 leaves). Present (mostly incomplete) are ff. 6, 24-31, 33, 47, 64-66, 69-71, 86, 89, 139-141, 143-145, 166-178, 180-186, plus many fragments. (Collation is based upon the unique copy in the Vatican, which however, has a slightly different layout). Extensive paper conservation. Modern morocco-backed patterned boards. Folio Goff 59; Thesaurus B3; not in Steinschneider; Tishby (Vatican) 10; Tishby (Israel) 28; Goldstein 79; Offenberg 74; Wineman Cat. 51. Not in HUC; JNUL with fragment of 3 leaves; Schocken with 16 leaves; JTSA with 21 leaves. Offenberg lists just four recorded copies

Guadalajara: Solomon ben Moses HaLevi ben Alkabetz (Ca. 1479 -1480)

Est: $7,000 - $10,000

PRICE REALIZED $8,000

Only One Complete Copy Extant (in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana). See P. Tishby, The Hebrew Incunabula in the...Vatican in: Kiryat Sepher, Vol. 58, no. 4, p. 854, no.10) Only four other copies are known. The Wineman Copy is the second most complete copy. The others (see above) are all smaller fragments. "A watermark in the shape of an “Anneau” using Briquet’s classification, was identified; Briquet number 691 is very similar and was used on paper from Syracuse dated 1479. Perhaps the Spanish printers imported paper from southern Italy." Wineman Catalogue, number 51