Levush Malchuth [elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch]

AUCTION 43 | Thursday, April 02nd, 2009 at 1:00

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Lot 156

JAFFE, MORDECHAI

Levush Malchuth [elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch]

Third edition. Four parts in two volumes, complete however bound out of sequence. Volume I, Even Ha’ezer: Levush Butz Ve’argaman ff. 87. * Orach Chaim: Levush Hatechleth Vehachur ff. 201, (2). Volume II, Yoreh De’ah: Levush Atereth Zahav ff. 148, (2). * Choshen Mishpat: Levush Ir Shushan ff. 162, (2)s Ex-library. Former owners' stamps, signatures and bookplates, browned and dampstained. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, variously worn. Folio Vinograd, Venice 1122-25

Venice: Giovanni Calioni, 1620

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $1,300

A Halachic work issued as a “midway between two extremes: the lengthy Beith Yoseph of Karo on the one hand, and the Shulchan Aruch with Isserles’ Mappah, which was too brief on the other.” (EJ, IX cols.1263-4). In total, the work contains ten “Garments” (Levushim), including Jaffe’s commentaries on other classic works. As a whole, “the Levush Malchuth is thus not only a code of law which sums up the Halachic scholarship of the day, but rather an entire summa of rabbinic Judaism both halachic and non-halachic.” See L. Kaplan, Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century (1983) p. 274