Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

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

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Lot 188

LEVI, JACOB BEN ISRAEL.

Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> An attractive, wide-margined copy. Previous owners’ signatures and inscription on title including: Rabbi Yehudah ben Harav Yochanan Ghiron of Florence (dated 1732) with marginalia in the same hand comparing the responsa of this first edition with the second edition of 1632. ff. (8), 191. Stamp on title. Modern calf. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 1079.

Venice: Giovanni Calioni 1614

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

A member of the ancient Beth-HaLevi family, Jacob grew up in Salonika where he studied Talmud with R. Aaron ibn Chasson and philosophy with R. David ibn Shushan. He served as rabbi of the Greek town of Xanthe before settling in Venice where his responsa were broadly endorsed by the great rabbis of the Mediterranean basin. See EJ, XI col. 83. The Ghiron family stemmed from Gerona, Spain. The signatory of this particular copy, Yehudah, was Rabbi of Florence from 1719-38, succeeding his father Yochanan (1646-1716) who was Rabbi of this beautiful Tuscan city for 34 years. See EJ vol. VII, col. 547-48.