Arba'ah Turim [Rabbinic code]

AUCTION 46 | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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JACOB BEN ASHER

Arba'ah Turim [Rabbinic code]

Four parts in one. Title within architectural arch. Letters of opening word of each section within a decorative vignette and woodcut border-piece. Censor's inscription on final page. ff. 117, (1 blank), 59, (1 blank), 91, (1 blank), 139. Bound out of sequence (Even ha-Ezer before Yoreh De'ah). Waterstained. Several leaves remargined with loss of few letters of side-notes. Fine modern blind-tooled morocco with gilt florets. Provided with matching slipcase. Folio Vinograd, Cremona 19; Benayahu, Cremona, 20a, p. 203; not in Adams

Cremona: Vicenzo Conti 1558

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,500

A fundamental Rabbinic treatise embracing all the laws and customs incumbent both upon the individual and the Community as a whole. Its over-riding authority has been recognised and accepted by Jewish scholars for generations. The arrangement of laws in the Arba'ah Turim provided the matrix or basic structure of R. Joseph Caro's Shulchan Aruch, the mainstay of Jewish Law to this day. Rare edition, the JNUL copy incomplete.