(Tur) Yoreh Deah [Code of law]

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 141

JACOB BEN ASHER

(Tur) Yoreh Deah [Code of law]

Second edition with commentary Beith Yoseph by Joseph Karo. With an interesting elaborate printer’s mark (see Yaari, Hebrew Printer’s Marks p, 18, no. 30) ff. 31, 398. Various owner’s signatures on title and introduction. Censor’s signature at end. Slight marginal worming in a few leaves with sllght repair to title. Some marginal notes in an Italian hand. Modern cloth, spine taped. Folio Vinograd, Venice 491; Amram p. 350. .

Vence: Giovanni Griffio 1564

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $650

Published during the lifetime of R. Joseph Karo with an introduction containing many interesting plays on the word “Karo” by R. Samuel b. Yitzchak Boehm, who states that he corrected many mistakes found in the first edition after examining problematic readings with the Gaon R. Meir of Padua. According to Amram (p.350) this was one of the first books to be printed following the removal of the ban on Hebrew printing in1563