Toldoth Adam VeChavah. Sepher Meisharim [Rabbinic code]

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

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YERUCHAM BEN MESHULAM OF PROVENCE.

Toldoth Adam VeChavah. Sepher Meisharim [Rabbinic code]

FIRST EDITION. Two parts bound in one volume. Title within ornate woodcut; both title and colophon have printer's mark of Judah Sasson, a lion facing left, with one paw uplifted (see Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 8). A Wide-Margined Copy. ff. 272, 122. Wanting ff. 14 of indices. Light stains. Final seven leaves remargined. Modern elegantly tooled calf. Folio Vinograd, Const. 83; Yaari, Const. 50

Constantinople: 1516

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $8,500

A native of Provence, Rabbeinu Yerucham was exiled from France due to the Expulsion of 1306. He eventually settled in Toledo, where he studied under R. Asher ben Yechiel (RO”Sh). In his Code, Rabbeinu Yerucham quotes the opinions of French, Provencal and Spanish authorities, recording the customs of those communities for posterity. The first part of this work, entitled Adam V'Chavah, focuses upon life-cycles and ritual law; the second part, entitled Meisharim, deals with civil law. The legal decisions of Rabbeinu Yerucham, frequently cited by R. Joseph Karo in his Beth Joseph, continue to play a major part in the development of Halacha.