Shailoth Uteshuvoth MaHaRa”M Me’Rothenburg [responsa]

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

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Lot 237

MEIR BEN BARUCH

Shailoth Uteshuvoth MaHaRa”M Me’Rothenburg [responsa]

FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. Including the Enactments of Rabbenu Gershom. Title within historiated woodcut border incorporating printer’s device (Yaari, Hebrew Printer’s Marks, no. 37). On front fly and title, Hebrew and German signatures of former owner, “Michael Kitze…Pressburg." (See description below.) Replete with erudite scholarly marginalia ff. 2, 5-114. Leaves 3 and 4 were destroyed during printing and are missing in all copies. Title, several first and final leaves laid down with very minute loss of text. Browned and stained. Recent morocco. Folio Vinograd, Prague 161; Mehlman 753. The first complete edition containing 1020 Responsa by this supreme arbiter of Halachic authority in Germany. For an exhaustive treatment of the Maharam and his influence from the 13th-century on, see I.A. Agus, Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (1947).

Prague: Moses ben Bezalel Katz 1608

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $500

The first complete edition of R. Meir’s Halachic rulings, containing 1020 responsa. The Kitzes were a distinguished Pressburg rabbinic family. R. David Kitze, was Dayan of Pressburg in 1770. Later, R. Yechiel Michel Kitze (d. 1845), authored Shalmei Nedavah (Pressburg 1838-43). Michel Kitze (the past owner of the present volume) was no doubt Yechiel Michel Kitze. See N.Z. Friedmann, Otzar Harabanim, nos. 5005, 9312.