Arba’ah Turim [Code of Law]

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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JACOB BEN ASHER OF TOLEDO.

Arba’ah Turim [Code of Law]

Four parts in two volumes. Vol I: ff. 186. * Vol. II. ff. 204. In total ff. 390 (of 408), lacking first eleven leaves (seven index leaves and first four leaves, of which nine leaves are provided in facsimile), final two leaves (provided in facsimile), and blanks. Section Orach Chaim of first volume remargined with traces of worming, first fifteen leaves restored with portions of text supplied in facsimile. Marginal notes on ff. 136,140, 248 b. Modern calf. Folio Vinograd Constantinople 1;Yaari, Constantinople, 1; Goff 49; (5 copies of which 3 are imperfect); Goldstein 104; Offenberg 63; Steinschneider p 1182, No. 5500.3; Thes. C 1; Wineman Cat. 65 ; Mehlman, Genuzot Sepharim, p.104. Not in Cambridge University

Constantinople: David and Samuel ibn Nachmias 1493

Est: $60,000 - $80,000

PRICE REALIZED $50,000

THE FIRST BOOK TO BE PRINTED IN ANY LANGUAGE IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE AND THE NEAR EAST. THE ONLY HEBREW INCUNABLE TO BE PRINTED IN CONSTANTINOPLE. The dating of this book has provoked intense debate among leading Hebrew bibliographers for nearly two centuries. Although the colophon here clearly notes the Arba’ah Turim was printed on Friday