(SeMa”K). Amudei Golah-Sepher Mitzvoth HaKatzar [abridgment of Moses of Coucy’s Sepher Mitzvoth Gadol]

AUCTION 46 | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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Lot 165
ISAAC BEN JOSEPH OF CORBEIL

(SeMa”K). Amudei Golah-Sepher Mitzvoth HaKatzar [abridgment of Moses of Coucy’s Sepher Mitzvoth Gadol]

Second Edition. On title, printer's mark (Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 25). Marginalium on f.2r. ff. 8, 156, 5, (1 blank). Some marginal worming expertly repaired. Modern calf. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Cremona 2; Benayahu, Cremona 4; Adams I-173

Cremona: Vicenzo Conti 1556

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,000
The French Tosafist, Isaac of Corbeil, was both son-in-law and disciple of R. Yechiel of Paris. He also studied at the academy of Tosafists at Evreux. This compendium lists all the Mitzvoth applicable in the present post-Temple era, and gives an excellent short synopsis with pertinent halachic details. It is divided into seven parts, corresponding to the seven days of the week, so that it could be reviewed regularly. The Author intended his Code to be of popular usage, thus he interspersed within it many Agadic passages, moral maxims and ethical teachings which enhanced its appeal. The work was accepted as an authoritative halachic source and much cited by later Codifiers - including the Tur.