Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa]

AUCTION 65 | Thursday, June 25th, 2015 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art

Back to Catalogue Download Catalogue

<Previous Lot

/232

Next Lot>

Lot 96

MIZRACHI, ELIJAH.

Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa]

<<FIRST EDITION>> . A Wide-Margined Copy. ff. 157 (160), wanting, as per all copies, the canceled leaves 109 and 110, as well as f. 157, title repaired with couple letters in facsimile, ff. 80-1 provided from an shorter copy, final two leaves remargined. Trace marginal worming, some dampstaining. Modern blind-tooled calf. Folio. Vinograd, Const. 217 (records ff. 158 complete); Mehlman 758; Yaari, Const. 161; Adams M-1516.

Constantinople: Solomon Ya’abetz 1560

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

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 as they were, amidst the turbulence of the Spanish Inquisition and often 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 the author’s son’s alleged conversion to Islam.