(MaHaRaSHDa”M ). Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

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Lot 232

MEDINA, SAMUEL DE

(MaHaRaSHDa”M ). Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

Two volumes (only). Title page within decorative woodcut architectural borders incorporating printer’s device (cf. Yaari no. 48). Previous owner’s marks, scattered marginalia in a Sephardic cursive hand Vol II (Even Ha’ezer): ff. 16, 204, Lacking title. * Vol III (Choshen Mishpat): ff. 36 (i.e. 35), 320. Few light stains in places, upper corner of title repaired. Recent morocco. Folio Vinograd, Salonika 131 and 139; Mehlman, Genuzot Sefarim, no. 50 and 52

Salonika: Abraham Joseph Bat-Scheba 1594-1595

Est: $700 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $850

Samuel de Medina was one of the outstanding Halachic decisors of the 16th century. The Yeshiva he founded in Salonika (which was supported by the noble Donna Gracia Mendes-Nasi) nurtured the development of scholars from throughout the Ottoman Empire. For a detailed study of this work and biography of the author see: L. Bornstein, Maphteach Le’ Shut R. Shmuel de Medina (1979). For a survey comparing the various editions of this work, see Y. S. Spiegel, Al Shtei Hamahadurot shel Teshuvot R. Shmuel de Medina in: Atarah Le-Chaim (Dimitrovsky Festschrift, 1999) pp.501-533; see also M.S. Goodblatt, Jewish Life in Turkey in the XVIth Century, as Reflected in the Legal Writings of Samuel de Medina (1952)