(RaSHB”A). Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

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(RaSHB”A). Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

Second edition. Present with indices (missing from most copies) and scarce additional title. A wide-margined copy ff. (16), 216. Previous owners' signatures in Italian hand on first leaf of index, marginal repair on title, scattered marginalia, signed by censors on final leaf dated 1687, stained in places, otherwise an attractive copy. Modern half calf boards. Folio Vinograd, Bologna 14; Mehlman 693 (incomplete); Adams S-1407

Bologna: The Company of Silk-Weavers 1539

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,400

The author was the foremost Spanish rabbi of the late 13th-14th century whose works are studied in all Torah Academies to this day. As a respondent, the RaSHB”A answers inquiries directly, without unneccessary lengthy scholastic discussion. The number of his responsa, including this pseudo-Nachmanides collection, reaches well over three thousand, with inquiries addressed from all parts of the world, and touching upon all phases of law - religious, family and civil, as well as theological concerns. See M. Waxman, History of Jewish Literature (1933), Vol. II, pp.165-167