Sepher Ha’agudah [Halachic compendium based upon Talmudic decisions]

AUCTION 29 | Monday, June 20th, 2005 at 1:00

Superior Hebrew Printed Books: Singular Selections from Two Distingushed Private Collections with American-Judaica.

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ALEXANDER SUESSLIN HAKOHEN OF FRANKFURT.

Sepher Ha’agudah [Halachic compendium based upon Talmudic decisions]

FIRST EDITION. Title within elaborate architectural arch ff. 4, 250. Some staining, upper portion of title repaired, previous owner’s signature. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with various historiated panels; later clasps, rebacked. Folio Vinograd, Cracow 32; not in Adams

Cracow: Isaac Prostitz 1571

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

Published from a manuscript with corrections supplied by Joseph Hakohen (brother-in-law of Moses Isserles), author of responsa She’eirith Yoseph. The author (d. 1348), was a disciple of R. Isaac of Duren and served as a Rabbi in Cologne, Worms and Frankfurt. The Sepher Ha’agudah, a popular, authoritative code is cited extensively by R. Yaakov Weil, the Mahri”l and R. Moses Isserles.