Shulchan Aruch [Code of Jewish Law]

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

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

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Lot 88

KARO, JOSEPH

Shulchan Aruch [Code of Jewish Law]

Second edition. Four parts in one volume. Four title pages. Printers device on titles (Yaari no. 31). Title letters within decorative woodcut border-piece ff. 61; 57; 34; 71. Some dampstaining, minimal marginal worming in final leaves, small marginal repair to title and first leaf of part I. Modern blind-tooled morocco. Folio Vinograd, Venice 552; not in Adams

Venice: Giovanni Griffio 1567

Est: $10,000 - $15,000

PRICE REALIZED $16,000

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. In 1567, two editions were issued simultaneously; one printed 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