(Arba’ah Turim). Yoreh Deah [Rabbinic Code]

AUCTION 54 | Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 at 1:00

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Lot 169

JACOB BEN ASHER.

(Arba’ah Turim). Yoreh Deah [Rabbinic Code]

<<A WIDE MARGINED COPY.>> ff. 127. This copy with seven further leaves than is called for both by Vinograd and by Haberman. Scattered marginalia. Some censoring - especially in Hilchoth Avodah Zarah, stained in places, opening few leaves loose. Contemporary vellum, spine chipped, upper cover starting. Sm. folio. Vinograd Venice 54, Haberman Bomberg 72.

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1522

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $5,000

<<RARE BOMBERG EDITION.>> According to I. Sonne, the Tur “grabbed first place in the book market” and was prized among Rabbinic scholars throughout the 15th and 16th centuries. Bomberg began to publish the Tur even before he completed his publication of the Talmud. See Tiyulim BeHistoria U’Bibliographia concerning the Trilogy of the Poskim: Maimonides, Semag, Tur during the first eighty years of Hebrew printing in Italy, in: Sepher Hayovel… Alexander Marx (1950) pp. 212-13.