Arba'ah Turim [The Four Orders of the Jewish Code of Law]. Orach Chaim with commentary “Beith Yoseph” by Joseph Karo.

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Lot 139

JACOB BEN ASHER.

Arba'ah Turim [The Four Orders of the Jewish Code of Law]. Orach Chaim with commentary “Beith Yoseph” by Joseph Karo.

Printers’ device on title (Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 30). Calendar on ff. 293v.-294r. Extensive learned rabbinic marginalia. ff. 24; 460. Waterstained and wrinkled. Contemporary calf-backed boards, front cover detached, spine removed. Folio Vinograd, Venice 518

Venice: Giovanni Griffio 1566

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,200

Ex-library Sanson Bachi (d. 1691). Rabbi of Casale and contemporary of the doyen of Italian kabbalists R. Moses Zacuto, Bachi was a celebrated kabbalist in his own right. See JE, Vol. II, p. 462.