Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa]

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

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

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Lot 110

MIZRACHI, ELIJAH.

Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa]

FIRST EDITION ff. 158 (160), lacking, as all copies, ff. 109-110 (bound in here in facsimile). Some staining, scattered marginalia in a cursive Sephardic script. Some words censored in responsum 56. Recent calf, slightly rubbed. Folio Vinograd, Const. 217 (records ff.158 complete); Mehlman 758; Yaari, Const. 161; Adams M-1516

Constantinople: Solomon Ya’abetz 1560

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

An attractive wide margined copy. Elijah Mizrachi (c.1450-1526) was one of the most outstanding Rabbinic authorities of the Ottoman Empire. His responsa are of great historic interest, written amidst the turbulence of the Spanish Inquisition and concern the Jewish exiles who migrated toTurkey. The cancelled leaves 109-10 (responsum 66) are extant in only two copies. They contain the author’s protestations and polemic with R. J. Algazi concerning his son’s alleged conversion to Islam