Levush Malchuth

AUCTION 31 | Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 at 1:00

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Lot 189

JAFFE, MORDECHAI

Levush Malchuth

Four parts in two volumes. Divisional title pages. I: Orach Chaim: Levush Hatechleth Vehachur ff. 201, (2). * II: Yoreh De’ah: Levush Atereth Zahav ff. 148, (2). * III: Even Ha’ezer: Levush Butz Ve’argaman ff. 87. * IV: Choshen Mishpat: Levush Ir Shushan ff. 162, (2) Lightly browned, scattered worming and dampstaining. Later reverse-leather backed boards, rubbed. Folio Vinograd, Venice 1122-25

Venice: Giovanni Calioni 1620

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

An important Halachic exposition. In total, the work contains ten “Attires” (Levushim), including Jaffe’s commentaries on classic meta-halachic works. As a whole, “the Levush Malchuth is thus not only a code of law which sums up the Halachic scholarship of the day, but rather an entire summa of rabbinic Judaism both halachic and non-halachic.” See L. Kaplan, Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century (1983) p.274