(RIBa”SH). Teshuvoth Harav [responsa]

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

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Lot 146

ISAAC BEN SHESHETH PERFET

(RIBa”SH). Teshuvoth Harav [responsa]

FIRST EDITION. Bound in two volumes. Title within ornamental four-piece border. A wide-margined copy. Scattered learned rabbinic marginalia in a few old Sephardi hands ff. 282 + 21ff. of indices (20 before the title and one from a smaller copy tipped in (inverted) at conclusion Vol. I). Stains. Ex-library. Modern calf. Folio Vinograd, Const. 193; Yaari, Const. 145 (both Vinograd and Yaari offer erroneous pagination, see J. Hacker, Aresheth V, p. 483); Adams I-179

Constantinople: Eliezer Soncino 1546

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,600

One of the leading scholars of his day, R. Isaac ben Shesheth was a disciple of R. Nissim Gerondi and a colleague of Don Hasdai Crescas. His Teshuvoth Harav contains 518 responsa, dealing with all phases of Halachic law and is particularly important for the social history of the Jews of 14th-century Spain and North Africa