Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa]

AUCTION 63 | Thursday, November 13th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 188

MIZRACHI, ELIJAH.

Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Previous owners marks. ff. 158 (160), wanting, as per all copies, the canceled leaves 109 and 110. Minimal light staining, browned in places. Later mottled calf, rubbed. Folio. Vinograd, Const. 217 (records ff. 158 complete); Mehlman 758; Yaari, Const. 161; Adams M-1516.

Constantinople: Solomon Ya’abetz 1560

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $5,000

<<An attractive wide margined copy.>> Elijah Mizrachi (c.1450-1526) was one of the most outstanding Rabbinic authorities of the Ottoman Empire. His responsa are of great historic interest, written amidst the turbulence of the Spanish Inquisition and concern those Jewish exiles who migrated to Turkey. The canceled leaves 109-10 (responsum 66) are extant in only two copies. They contain the author’s protestations and polemic with R. J. Algazi concerning his son’s alleged conversion to Islam.