(Arbah Turim) [The Four Orders of the Jewish Code of Law]. Yoreh Deah with commentary “Beith Yoseph” by Joseph Karo

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JACOB BEN ASHER

(Arbah Turim) [The Four Orders of the Jewish Code of Law]. Yoreh Deah with commentary “Beith Yoseph” by Joseph Karo

Second edition with commentary. Printers device on title (Yaari no. 30) ff. 31, 398. Slight staining, censors signatures on final leaf, slight worming first few leaves, otherwise a clean copy. Modern morocco backed boards. Folio Vinograd, Venice 491; Amram p. 350.

Venice : Giovanni Griffio 1564

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

Published during the lifetime of R. Joseph Karo with an introduction containing interesting plays on the word “Karo” by R. Samuel b. Yitzchak Boehm, who states he corrected many mistakes found in the first edition of this work after examining problematic readings with the Gaon R. Meir of Padua. According to Amram (p.350) this was one of the first books to be printed following the removal of the ban on Hebrew printing in 1563