Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa]

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 180

MIZRACHI, ELIJAH.

Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa]

FIRST EDITION. Wide-Margined Copy ff. 158. Wanting, as all copies, the cancelled leaves 109 and 110. Previous owners' notes, title laid to size, opening and closing few leaves with marginal repairs, some staining, slight marginal worming on a few leaves. Modern calf-backed boards. Folio Vinograd, Const. 217; Mehlman 758 Yaari, Const. 161; Adams M-1516

Constantinople: Solomon ben Isaac Ya’abetz 1560

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

Elijah Mizrachi (c.1450-1526) was one of the most outstanding Rabbinic authorities of the Ottoman Empire. His responsa, written amidst the turbulence of the Spanish Inquisition are of great historic interest as they concern the Jewish exiles who found sanctuary in Constantinople. The cancelled leaves 109-10 (responsum 66) are extant in only two copies worldwide. They contain the author’s protestations concerning his son’s alleged conversion to Islam