(RYBa”SH). Teshuvoth Harav [responsa]

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

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

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Lot 162

ISAAC B”R SHESHETH PERFET

(RYBa”SH). Teshuvoth Harav [responsa]

Second Edition. Three initial title letters within floral woodcut vignettes and gilt. Many previous owners' signatures and inscriptions on recto and verso of title including: R. David ben Yizchak, Av Beth Din of Trier; Yehuda Leib b. HaChasid Yuzpe Worms; a lengthy inscription dated Strasburg, 1817 signed by Aberli Sinzheim stating he gave this book as a gift to R. Yakel on behalf of a woman for whom the Rabbi arranged a Get and did not want to accept payment; a further note attests to the rarity of this book ff. 415, (9). Few neat marginal repairs, browned and stained in places. Modern calf. Thick 4to Vinograd, Riva 13

Riva di Trento: n.p. 1559

Est: $800 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $950

R. Isaac bar Sheshet Perfet (1326-1408) was a Spanish luminary who fled Valencia in the wave of the persecution of 1391 and settled in Algiers. His responsa, one of the pillars upon which Joseph Karo’s Shulchan Aruch later rested, are an invaluable source of historical information concerning the Jews of Spain and North Africa in the 14th century. See EJ, Vol. IX, cols. 32-3