Sepher ha-Agudah [Halachic compendium arranged in order of the tractates of the Talmud]

AUCTION 32 | Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 at 1:00

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ALEXANDER SUESSLIN HAKOHEN OF FRANKFURT

Sepher ha-Agudah [Halachic compendium arranged in order of the tractates of the Talmud]

FIRST EDITION. Title within elaborate architectural arch. Letters of initial words in vignettes. Printed in double columns. Former owner’s signature on title. ff. 4, 250. Some staining, slight tear to f.158. 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: $2,500 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,750

Published from a manuscript with corrections supplied by Joseph Hakohen (brother-in-law of Moses Isserles), author of responsa She’erith Yoseph. The author (d. 1348), was a disciple of R. Isaac of Dueren and served as rabbi in Cologne, Worms and Frankfurt. The Sepher ha-Agudah, a popular, authoritative code, is cited extensively by R. Jacob ha-Levi Moellin (Mahari”l) and R. Moses Isserles (Ram”a). See EJ, Vol. II, cols. 585-6 (incl. facsimile)