Levush Malchuth [elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch]

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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JAFFE, MORDECHAI BEN ABRAHAM

Levush Malchuth [elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch]

Third edition. Four parts in four volumes. Divisional title pages. Text illustrations. Marginalia in a Yemenite hand Vol. I:Orach Chaim: Levush Hatechleth Vehachur ff. 201, (2). * Vol. II: Yoreh De’ah: Levush Atereth Zahav ff. 148, (2). * Vol. III: Even Ha’ezer: Levush Butz Ve’argaman ff. 87. * Vol. IV: Choshen Mishpat: Levush Ir Shushan ff. 162, (2). Variously stained with marginal worming occasionaly affecting text, papers repairs, corners rounded, few leaves supplied from another copy, Vol. IV, p. 46a with natural printers error. Modern boards. Folio Vinograd, Venice 1122-25

Venice: Giovanni Calioni 1620

Est: $800 - $1,200

A Halachic work issued as a “midway between two extremes: the lengthy Beith Yoseph of Karo on the one hand, and the Shulchan Aruch with Isserles’ Mapah, which was too brief, on the other.” EJ, IX cols.1263-4