(RaSHB”A). Torath HaBayith HaKatzar [compendium of the author’s lengthier legal manual]

AUCTION 47 | Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 1:00

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ADRET, SOLOMON IBN

(RaSHB”A). Torath HaBayith HaKatzar [compendium of the author’s lengthier legal manual]

FIRST EDITION ff. 72. Mispaginated (as in all copies) though complete, slight staining, opening four leaves inserted from another copy. Modern boards. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Cremona 45; Benayahu, Cremona 31; Mehlman 692

Cremona: Vicenzo Conti 1566

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $425

The author was the acknowledged leader of Spanish Jewry. His teachers were the two Geronese cousins Jonah ben Abraham (“Rabbenu Yonah”) and Nachmanides. It was particularly Nachmanides' method that Rashb”a continued: a fusion of the French Tosafists and the early Spanish luminaries