Levush Malchuth [Elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch] Orach Chaim: Levush Hatechleth, Levush Hachur

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JAFFE, MORDECHAI BEN ABRAHAM.

Levush Malchuth [Elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch] Orach Chaim: Levush Hatechleth, Levush Hachur

FIRST EDITION. Separate title for Levush Hachur. With two leaves of geometrical diagrams Part I: ff.1, 101(title, first four leaves and f. 10 in facsimile, ff.6-9 and 11 supplied from another copy). * Part II: ff. 110, (1). Additional 11 leaves supplied from another copy at end. Previous owners' signatures and inscriptions inside front cover and flyleaf, Institutional de-accession stamp, some staining. Contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed and chipped. Folio. Sold not subject to return Vinograd Lublin 46; Steinschneider 6229, 1("ed. rarissimam non delineat")

Lublin: Kalonymus b. Mordecai Jaffe 1590

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

RARE FIRST EDITION. With eleven additional leaves at end of Part II not noted by Vinograd. A Halachic work issued as a “midway between two extremes: the lengthy Beith Yoseph of Karo on the one hand, and the Shulchan Aruch with Isserles’ Mappah, which was too brief on the other.” EJ IX cols.1263-4. The author was one of the greatest scholars of his time. He was especially renowned for his wide-ranging interests. His ten Levushim run the gamut from classical halacha, biblical exegisis, philosophy, astronomy and kabbalah. He studied under the great talmudic scholars of Poland, R. Moses Isserles (Ram"a), and R. Shlomo Luria (Maharsh"al). He also studied Kabbalah under R. Mattathias ben Solomon Delacrut whom he cites in the introduction to the Levush Ohr Yekaroth. These works comprise the first two “garments” (Levushim) of the total of ten which comprise Jaffe’s monumental output