(RYBa”SH). Teshuvoth Harav [responsa]

AUCTION 57 | Thursday, January 31st, 2013 at 1:00

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

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Lot 121

ISAAC B”R SHESHETH PERFET.

(RYBa”SH). Teshuvoth Harav [responsa]

Second Edition. Three initial title letters within floral woodcut vignettes and gilt. Few marginal notes. ff. 415 (i.e. 417), (9). Stained in places, few marginal paaper repairs. Modern calf-backed marbled boards. Thick 4to. Vinograd, Riva 13

Riva di Trento: n.p. 1559

Est: $800 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $800

R. Isaac bar Sheshet Perfet (1326-1408) was a Spanish luminary who fled Valencia in 1391 due to a wave of persecution and settled in Algiers. His responsa, one of the pillars upon which Joseph Karo’s Shulchan Aruch later rested, are an invaluable source of historical information concerning the Jews of Spain and North Africa in the 14th century. See EJ, Vol. IX, cols. 32-3.