(Arba’ah Turim). Even Ha’ezer [Rabbinic Code]

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

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 170

JACOB BEN ASHER.

(Arba’ah Turim). Even Ha’ezer [Rabbinic Code]

<<FIRST EDITION WITH COMMENTARY BY JOSEPH KARO.>> Each letter of title within a decorative woodcut vignette. Opening word of main text within elaborate floral woodcut border piece. Printer’s mark on verso of final leaf (Yaari no. 20). Previous owners’ signatures and inscription on title in various Italian hands, scholarly note on front flyleaf, censor’s signature on final leaf, some words censored in places (e. g. concerning relations with a Gentile woman), scattered scholarly marginalia in an Italian hand. <<A wide-margined copy.>> ff. 232. Some staining. Later blind -tooled calf, partally rebacked. Folio. Vinograd, Sabbioneta 7; Mehlman 732; Habermann, Adelkind 114; Yaari, Mechkarei Sepher, pp. 354-55, no. 5.

Sabbioneta: Tobias Foa 1553

Est: $2,500 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,500

According to Sonne (cited also by Yaari and Habermann), there are two variants of this edition; one on which f. 74 contains 57 lines on both the recto and verso (as in this copy and the Mehlman copy) and another issue wherein the recto contains 59 lines and the verso 53 lines within a differing layout. See Kiryath Sepher Vol. VII (1930), p. 484.