(Attributed to). Halachoth Gedoloth [Gaonic Rabbinic Code]

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

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Lot 162

KAYARA, SHIMON.

(Attributed to). Halachoth Gedoloth [Gaonic Rabbinic Code]

FIRST EDITION. Title within wreathed ornamental arch ff. (4), 144. Stamp removed from title, stained in places. Modern blind-tooled red morocco. Folio Vinograd, Venice 333; Haberman, Adelkind 51; Adams S-1157

Venice: Cornelio Adelkind for Marco Antonio Giustiniani 1548

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $800

In the introduction, there is an enumeration of the negative and positive commandments. Whereas Maimonides' Sepher HaMitzvoth veered away from such a reckoning, Nachmanides in his glosses to the work of Maimonides, upheld the viewpoint of the Halachoth Gedoloth. The authorship and date of the Halachoth Gedoloth have been the subject of much study and have given rise to conflicting views. Generally speaking, medieval Aschkenazic authorities tended to the view that the author of the work was R. Yehudai Gaon, while their Sephardic counterparts belived the author was R. Shimon Kayara. Modern scholarship inveighs the latter view. See EJ, Vol. VII, cols.1167-70 (illustrated)