(RaSHB”A). She’eiloth u-Teshuvoth [responsa]

AUCTION 34 | Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 1:00

Exemplary Hebrew Books: The Library of Joseph Gradenwitz, Esq.

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IBN ADRET, SOLOMON.

(RaSHB”A). She’eiloth u-Teshuvoth [responsa]

Third edition. Rashi script. Printed in double margins. Present with indices (missing from most copies), additional title. A wide-margined copy. On final page, censor’s inscriptiion, “Camillo Jaghel” ff. (16), 216. Stained in places, otherwise an attractive copy. Modern beige calf, lightly scuffed. Folio Vinograd, Bologna 14; Mehlman 693 (incomplete); Adams S-1407

Bologna: The Company of Silk-Weavers 1539

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,300

R. Solomon ibn Adret was among the anti-Maimonideans who opposed the study of philosophy below the age of twenty-five. Be that as it may, the sheer quantity of Rashb”a’s legal responsa - in the thousands - is staggering, not to speak of their quality. The present collection contains 1255 such responsa to Jewish communities throughout Europe and North Africa. Of late Prof. Ch. Z. Dimitrovsky has published a critical edition of Rashba’s responsa, but only those of a philosophical (or anti-philosophical nature)