Sepher Agur [laws and precepts]

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 213

LANDAU, JACOB.

Sepher Agur [laws and precepts]

Second edition. Title within architectural arch. Initial letters of opening word within white-on-black decorative woodcut vignettes. ff. 102. Previous owners’ marks, several leaves remargined, stained, few leaves supplied from another copy. Modern calf. 4to. Vinograd, Rimini 6; Adams L-107; Habermann, Soncino, 77.

Rimini: Gershom Soncino (1525-26)

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,400

The last rabbinic code written by a German scholar before the Shulchan Aruch was compiled, the Sepher Agur follows the order of the Tur and contains 1,439 sections, primarily focusing upon ritual, the laws of the Sabbath and the Festivals. R. Jacob Landau’s purpose was to add the decisions of the later German scholars, such as Jacob Moelin and Israel Isserlein, which were omitted by Jacob ben Asher’s Tur. This copy contains the rare final four leaves of riddles (Sepher Chazon) following the index.