Shulchan Aruch [Code of Jewish Law]. Four parts in one volume

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

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Graphics and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 150

KARO, JOSEPH

Shulchan Aruch [Code of Jewish Law]. Four parts in one volume

Second edtion. Four parts in one volume. Four title pages. Printers device on titles (Yaari no. 31). Title letters within decorative woodcut border-piece. The Salman Schocken Copy ff. 61; 57; 34; 71. Few light damp-stains in places, few inner margins strengthened, paper marginal repair to title of part II, neat repairs to a few leaves, scattered marginal worming, marginalia. Modern blind-tooled calf. Folio Vinograd, Venice 552; not in Adams

Venice: Giovanni Griffio 1567

Est: $15,000 - $18,000

PRICE REALIZED $15,000

The Salman Schocken Copy (with his stamp on last page). A digest of the expansive Beith Yoseph, the Shulchan Aruch (“Prepared Table”) was so named by Karo to indicate that he had prepared the material in a manner ready to be “consumed” immediately. It became the Rabbinic Code par excellence. Two editions were issued simultaneously; one by Giovanni Griffio, and the other at the House of Cavalli. For details regarding these early printings of the Shulchan Aruch, see R. Margolioth, Sinai, Vol. XXXVII (1955), pp. 25-35, and R. Y. Nissim in Sinai, Sepher Yovel (1958), pp. 29-39. The Cavalli edition of the Shulchan Aruch was sold by Kestenbaum & Company, Sale XXV (October, 2004), Lot 25