Arbah Turim [The Four Orders of the Jewish Code of Law]

AUCTION 39 | Thursday, April 03rd, 2008 at 1:00

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Lot 193

JACOB BEN ASHER

Arbah Turim [The Four Orders of the Jewish Code of Law]

ff. 24 (of 86); 36 (of 74); 44 (of 45); 2 (of 117). Stained and repaired. Modern half calf. Folio. Sold not subject to return Vinograd, Fano 18; See Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book pp. 88-9

Fano: Gershom Soncino 1516

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,500

EXTREMELY RARE. JNUL copy incomplete. The legal compendia of Jacob b. Asher and Maimonides were the most popular post-talmudic and non-liturgical Hebrew books of the 15th and 16th centuries. The Tur is a comprehensive Halachic treatise embracing all the laws and customs incumbent both upon an individual and the Community as a whole. Its over-riding authority has been recognised and accepted by Jewish scholars of all segments of Jewry for generations. Joseph Karo's Shulchan Aruch and subsequent codes are all based upon the Tur