(The RaSHBa”TZ). Pirush HaKethubah.
AUCTION 57 |
Thursday, January 31st,
2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 70
DURAN, SHIMON BEN TZEMACH.
(The RaSHBa”TZ). Pirush HaKethubah.
(Constantinople): circa 1515
Est: $10,000 - $12,000
<<Exceptionally rare Constantinople imprint.>>
R. Shimon ben Zemach Duran (1361-1444), a native of the isle of Majorca, was one of three prominent rabbinic figures who fled to Algeria in the year 1391 in order to escape anti-Jewish riots in their native Spain - the other two being R. Isaac ben Shesheth Perfet (Riva”sh) and R. Ephraim b. Israel Elankawa (buried in Tlemcen). See EJ, Vol. IX, col. 32; JE, Vol. I, p. 437.
R. Shimon ben Zemach Duran became one of the foremost halachic decisors of North African Jewry.