Sepher Halachoth Rav Alfas [Rabbinic code]

AUCTION 44 | Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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ALFASI, ISAAC BEN JACOB (RI”F).

Sepher Halachoth Rav Alfas [Rabbinic code]

With commentaries. Complete in three volumes. Title pages within woodcut architectural borders, opening words within white-on-black decorative woodcut vignettes Vol. I: ff. 399 (of 400, lacking final blank, as in JNUL copy). * Vol. II: ff. 401-782 (i.e. 781). * Vol. III: ff. 392. With scarce final section of Shaarei Shavuoth ff. 9, (1) appended. Several score leaves laid to size with some loss in first two volumes. Titles of Vols. I-II wormed and laid down. Final signature in Vol. III loose, last leaf laid down. Some stains in places, few leaves supplied from another copy. Modern calf. Thick folio Vinograd, Venice 34; Haberman, Bomberg 69; St. 5310, 2 (Ed. quoque rara); not in Adams

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1521-2

Est: $20,000 - $30,000

PRICE REALIZED $18,000

EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND IMPORTANT EDITION The RI”F is the most significant Halachic compendium prior to the Yad Ha Chazakah of Maimonides and remains an important and widely admired Code. R. Joseph Caro regarded Alfasi’s scholarship with the utmost respect and determined the laws in his Shulchan Aruch upon his authority