Sepher Halachoth Rav Alfas [Rabbinic code]. Volumes II (part 2) and Vol. III (only). Bound here in three volumes.

AUCTION 68 | Thursday, April 07th, 2016 at 1:00

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ALFASI, ISAAC BEN JACOB (RI”F).

Sepher Halachoth Rav Alfas [Rabbinic code]. Volumes II (part 2) and Vol. III (only). Bound here in three volumes.

With Nimukei Yoseph, Mordechai and Tosephta. <<EXTENSIVE SCHOLARLY MARGINALIA THROUGHOUT>> all volumes, in several early hands. ff. 620-778 (Kidushin and Chulin), (1), 64-93 Tosephta and Hamaor Hagadol. ff. 392, 20 (Nezikin). Variously worn and stained. Later calf, worn. Folio.

Venice: Bragadin 1552

Est: $8,000 - $12,000

PRICE REALIZED $7,500

These notations include corrections of the all the texts including the commentaries of Rash’i and Ra’n. <<There are countless scholarly innovations throughout >> The glosses include those of <<R. Gershon ben Abraham Port Katz>> , who signs his name several times throughout the two volumes. R. Gershon ben Abraham Port Katz (b. 1538) was a member of the Rapa-Porto / Rapaport family. He studied under R. Meir Katzenellenbogen and lived in Mantua where he was celebrated as a noted Torah scholar (see Carmoli, Ha’orvin U’bnei Hayonah 1861, p. 4).