She'eloth u-Teshuvoth Mahara"m Mintz [responsa]

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

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Lot 232

MINTZ, MOSES BEN ISAAC

She'eloth u-Teshuvoth Mahara"m Mintz [responsa]

FIRST EDITION. Title within decorative woodcut border with floral and bird motifs ff. 156, (12). Mispaginated but complete. Lightly browned and waterstained. Institutional stamps on title and last leaf. Title, ff. 2-3,114, and final leaf laid to size. Expert repair on f.126. Modern blind-tooled calf. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Cracow 330

Cracow: Isaac Prostitz 1617

Est: $1,800 - $2,200

PRICE REALIZED $1,800

R. Moses Mintz was one of the greatest German Halachic scholars of the 15th-century. As Rabbi of Wuerzburg, Bamberg, Nuremberg and Posen, he featured prominently in communal life in Germany and beyond - especially Italy, where his cousin, Isaac Mintz, served as Rabbi of Padua. His responsa are important for the delineation of Aschkenazi custom, including the Takanoth of Rabbenu Gershom and Takanoth ShU”M (Speyer, Worms and Mainz). See EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 65-66