(Arbah Turim) Choshen Mishpat [Rabbinic Code]

AUCTION 36 | Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books & Manuscripts

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Lot 129

JACOB BEN ASHER

(Arbah Turim) Choshen Mishpat [Rabbinic Code]

Printer’s device on title. Final leaf with woodcut of Venus holding a spear pointed at a seven-headed dragon (Yaari no. 35) ff. 421, [1] 27, [1]. Previous owners’ signatures and notes on title and inside front cover, including Yoseph Ha-Levi, a Dayan in a town in France, scattered marginalia, plus a list of all the different types of the legal concept of ”Migo” listed in the Talmud in an Ashkenazic script on the verso of the title, first seven leaves loose, some staining and marginal worming at end. Contemporary boards, defective. Folio Vinograd, Venice 800; Habermann, di Gara 147; Adams J-23

Venice: Juan Bragadin for Giovanni di Gara 1595

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $1,800

Yaari apparently did not see the rare final leaf, as he states that it appears only in the Mishneh Torah published by Bragadin in 1574: “It does not appear in any other book published by Bragadin.” See Yaari, Hebrew Printers Marks, p. 136