(Arba'ah Turim) Choshen Mishpat [Rabbinic Code: Laws of finance]

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

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

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Lot 167

JACOB BEN ASHER

(Arba'ah Turim) Choshen Mishpat [Rabbinic Code: Laws of finance]

Printer’s device on title. Final leaf with woodcut of Venus clutching a spear pointed toward a seven-headed dragon (Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 35). On front fly, Latin stamp of "M. Rogozin, Brest-Litovsk; on f. 3r. Cyrillic stamp of M.Rogozhin, Warsaw; on f.421v. Hebrew signature of former owner: Avraham b. hrri"tz Schor MeLvov." Replete with learned rabbinic marginalia ff. 421, 27 (bound out of sequence, ff.1-6 between ff.12-13), (1). Wanting blank following f. 421, preceding indices (see collation in Adams). Title silked and wanting first two letters of word "bi-zero'a" (asher bi-zero'a iyuno kibetz kol ha-de'oth), variously stained, few marginal repairs, final colophon leaf present though impugnable. Modern boards. Folio Vinograd, Venice 800; Habermann, di Gara 147; Adams J-23

Venice: Giovanni Bragadini for Giovanni di Gara 1594

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $750

Yaari apparently did not see the rare final leaf present in this copy, as he states it appeared only in the Mishneh Torah published by Bragadin in 1574: “It does not appear in any other book published by Bragadin.” See Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks, p. 136