Arba’ah Turim [Code of Jewish Law]

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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Lot 35

JACOB BEN ASHER.

Arba’ah Turim [Code of Jewish Law]

Title within attractive four-part ornamental border. Initials floriated. ff. 52-55, 57 with diagrams of Eruvin; ff. 60r.-61v. with calendar. On final page, signature of censor, “Camillo Jaghel 1629” ff. (357). (The pagination provided in pencil is erroneous, counting only to f. 354, it skips a leaf between ff.21-22; bet. ff. 77-78; and bet. ff. 286-287. Our collation accords with that of Yaari). Title and many leaves laid to size. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum over wooden boards, vellum and metallic hasps, spine in compartments, wormed. Thick folio Vinograd, Const. 167; Yaari, Const. 130; Mehlman 729; Steinschneider 5500-6 (“Ed quoque rara”)

Constantinople: Eliezer ben Gershom Soncino 1538-40

Est: $50,000 - $70,000

Jacob ben Asher’s Tur. A Rare and Important Edition. The editor, R. Shlomo Mazal Tov, states in the introduction “the demand for the this wonderful work is so great that all previous editions have been dispersed as quickly as the flight of a flock of frightened sheep.” The scholarly proof-reader, R. Yechiel ben Reuben Ashkenazi, added marginal notes (“Mareh mekomth Ve-tziunim”) indicating certain sources not noted in earlier editions