Levush Ir Shushan [commentary on Choshen Mishpat]

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

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Lot 181

JAFFE, MORDECHAI

Levush Ir Shushan [commentary on Choshen Mishpat]

FIRST EDITION. Signatures on title including "Eliezer Kurinaldi who donated (the book) to the the community of Sabbionetta." ff. 224. Scattered staining, trace marginal worming, taped repair on final leaf. Contemporary calf, variously worn. Folio Vinograd, Cracow 204

Cracow: Y. Prostitz 1598

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,800

Mordechai Jaffe (c.1535-1612), a native of Prague, studied in his youth in Poland under the greatest scholars of the day, R. Solomon Luria (Maharsha”l) and R. Moses Isserles (Ram”a). In subsequent years, he would sojourn in Italy and once again in Poland, before finally returning to his native Prague in 1592, at which time he succeeded the famed R. Judah Löw (Mahara”l) as Av Beth Din. The Levush remains to this day one of the mainstays of the Halacha - especially the Aschkenazic tradition.