Sepher Agur [Code of Jewish law]

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

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Lot 177

LANDAU, JACOB.

Sepher Agur [Code of Jewish law]

Second edition ff. 86 (of 102). Lacks 12 opening and 4 closing leaves. Several leaves laid to size. Stained and wormed, marginal paper repairs. Later blind-tooled half-calf, (spine mis-titled). 4to Vinograd, Rimini 6; Adams L-107; no copy in the JNUL

Rimini: Gershom Soncino 1525

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

The Agur contains fourteen hundred and thirty nine sections and follows the order of the Tur. It deals largely with ritual, the laws of Sabbath and the Festivals. It was the last rabbinic code written by a German scholar before the Shulchan Aruch was compiled. The Author’s intention was to update the decisions of the Tur, by grafting on to them the opinions of later German scholars: Rabbis Jacob Moelin, Israel Isserlein, Jacob Weil, Joseph Colon, and his father Judah Landau (d. 1464). See EJ, Vol. X, cols. 1393-94