(Ra”N). Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

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GERONDI, NISSIM BEN REUBEN

(Ra”N). Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

Second edition. Title within 4-part ornamental border. Title with signature in Hebrew and German of Moshe Guideman (1835-1918), Rabbi of Vienna ff. 79 (of 80), lacking f. 79. Occasional marginalia. Later boards. 4to Vinograd, Const. 197; Yaari, Const. 147; Mehlman 769

Constantinople: Moses Parnas the Physician 1548

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $2,100

This edition combined the responsa of the first Rome edition. along with those cited in Teshuvoth Ha-Rivash, Constantinople 1546-7. Reflecting the social-history of the period, these responsa especially focus upon the economic difficulties of the Jewish Community of Barcelona during the second half of the 14th-century