Teshuvoth HaRaDa”CH [responsa]

AUCTION 41 | Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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Lot 140

HAKOHEN, DAVID, OF CORFU

Teshuvoth HaRaDa”CH [responsa]

FIRST EDITION. Title within Soncino’s striking historiated border ff. (225). Variously stained, worn in places, some worming affecting text, scattered marginalia in a Sephardic hand. Ex-library. Later vellum-backed boards, loose. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Const. 160; Yaari, Const. 125; Mehlman 703

Constantinople: Eliezer Soncino 1537

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,500

David ben Chaim Hakohen (beg. 15th century) was rabbi at Corfu and later in Patras, Greece. He was a disciple of the great halachist R. Judah Mintz (MaHaR”I Mintz). At times he clashed over Halachic issues with R. Moses Alashkar and also R. Benjamin Ze’ev. The title page tells of the miraculous rescue of the present manuscript from fire in the home of the author’s son R. Chaim Cohen in Adrianople, Turkey. This collection of 33 responsa enjoyed immense popularity, enjoying several editions. See JE, Vol. IV, p. 463