Sepher Halachoth Rav Alfas [Rabbinic code]

AUCTION 40 | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:00

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ALFASI, ISAAC BEN JACOB (RI”F).

Sepher Halachoth Rav Alfas [Rabbinic code]

With commentaries. Complete in three volumes. Title pages within woodcut architectural borders, opening words within white-on-black decorative woodcut vignettes Vol. I: ff. 399 (of 400, lacking final blank, as in JNUL copy. ). * Vol. II: ff. 401-782 (i.e. 781). * Vol. III: ff. 392; one gathering misbound but complete. Lacking final section of Shaarei Shavuoth ff. 9,(1) which was appended to this edition. Previous owners' stamps and signatures on titles, marginal corrections and notes in various hands, with signature on f. 55a of Vol. I - HaKoteiv R. Shlomo Cohen. Some lengthy notes especially in Vol. III citing the Rashb”a. Stained in places, some worming, paper repairs, mostly marginal although affecting few words in places. Uniform vellum, lightly worn. Large folio Vinograd, Venice 34; Haberman, Bomberg 69; St. 5310, 2 (Ed. quoque rara); not in Adams

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1521-2

Est: $50,000 - $60,000

EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND IMPORTANT EDITION The RI”F is the most significant Halachic compendium prior to the Yad Ha’Chazakah of Maimonides and remains an important and widely admired Code. R. Joseph Caro regarded Alfasi’s scholarship with the utmost respect and determined the laws in his Shulchan Aruch upon his authority