Peirush HaGet [treatise on the Bill of Divorce]

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 228

SAMSON BEN ISAAC OF CHINON

Peirush HaGet [treatise on the Bill of Divorce]

FIRST EDITION. Printed without a title page. On final page, numerous inscriptions of Church censors, including: "Revisto per mi Fra[te] Luigi da Bologna, 1601." (See Popper, pl. IV, no. 1) ff.12. Light stains. Later morocco, rubbed. 4to Vinograd, Const. 68; Ya'ari, Const. 82; Mehlman 796

Constantinople: (1515)

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

R. Samson ben Isaac of Chinon (14th-century), one of the last of the Tosaphist School of France, is most famous for his Sepher Kerithuth (Constantinople, 1515), a comprehensive exposition on Talmudic methodology. See EJ, vol. XIV, col. 779