Benei Shmuel [responsa and novellae]

AUCTION 50 | Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Art

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Lot 89

ChAyon, Samuel

Benei Shmuel [responsa and novellae]

FIRST EDITION. Two parts bound in one volume. A wide-margined copy ff. 113; 124. Extensive paper professional repairs, margin of title replaced, repaired worming. Modern calf. Folio Vinograd, Salonika 175

Salonika: 1613

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,200

R. Shemaiah di Modena composed the introduction to this work and relates that it is entitled "Bnei Shmuel," as the author - (who was named after his grandfather, Samuel di Modena, the Maharshda"m), had no children of his own, hence his legacy is the present work of Torah scholarship. The afterword recounts the author's losses due to civil unrest in Salonika in 1614. See Y. Mehlman, Genuzoth Sepharim, p. 92