Sepher Binyamin Ze’ev [responsa]

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

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

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Lot 56

BENJAMIN BEN MATATHIAS (OF ARTA).

Sepher Binyamin Ze’ev [responsa]

FIRST EDITION. On title, inscription by Israel Isaac Este. Scattered learned rabbinic marginalia in old hand ff. 367, (2), 376-399, 399-575. Ex-library. Some leaves waterstained, marginal worming. Modern morocco. Thick 4to Vinograd, Venice 167; Mehlman 702; Habermann, Bomberg 161

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1539

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

Of a somewhat disputatious nature, R. Benjamin of Arta (Epirus) issued this mammoth collection of 450 legal decisions largely as self-justification following a tendentious Halachic feud with R. David Hakohen of Corfu concerning Agunoth. The work contains a distinctly independent tone in its rulings, but is often cited by R. Moses Isserles (the ReM”A), thus assuring its permanent place in the annals of Halacha.