Tur, Even Ha’Ezer

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 52

JACOB BEN ASHER OF TOLEDO.

Tur, Even Ha’Ezer

Third edition. First Spanish edition Small fragments containing the laws of Ketuboth and Gittin. Modern morocco-backed patterned boards. Folio Goff 58; Goldsten 81; Offenberg 73; Steinschneider p.5500 no.36; Thes. B2; Wineman Cat. no. 52. Not in JNUL; HUC with 29 leaves; JTS with 2 leaves. Offenberg lists just three recorded copies

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

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $950

Only One Complete Copy Extant (in the Bodleian Library, Oxford). Only two other fragments are known (see above). Most of Alkabetz’s output is extant only in the form of fragments. It is unknown if he printed the Orach Chaim, the final portion of the Tur. See H.C. Zafren, Studies in Bibliography and Booklore Vol. XII (1979) p. 45