Tur Orach Chaim [Code of Jewish Law]. Fragment. Chaps. 648-669
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
Lot 151
JACOB BEN ASHER
Tur Orach Chaim [Code of Jewish Law]. Fragment. Chaps. 648-669
(Naples: Joshua Solomon Soncino, circa 1492)
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
PRICE REALIZED $3,500
Unique Two-leaf Fragment. Only One Other (Incomplete) Copy Extant - lacking the present two leaves.
This edition of the Tur survives nowhere complete. Only a total of ff. 61 are extant, residing in the JNUL which contain Chapters 8-419. Our fragment of only two leaves contains the later Chapters 648-669, dealing with the laws of the festivals of Sukkoth, Chanukah and Purim.
Offenberg, who provides exhaustive lists of Hebrew Incunabula in Public Collections, was aware of no other copy of this edition other than the incomplete fragment in the Mehlman Collection in the JNUL