Hilchatha LeShtaroth [on contracts and deeds]

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

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

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ELYAKIM, YECHIEL YA’AKOV BEN YISRAEL CHAIM YOSEPH.

Hilchatha LeShtaroth [on contracts and deeds]

Hebrew manuscript written on paper in Sephardic cursive and semi-cursive script. With signature and stamps of author on title, plus another signature of the author on f. 7b. Title within decorated borders. ff. c. 125 (including blanks, mispaginated). Stained in places, few tears, two portions removed on final leaf. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, rubbed, front cover detached. 4to.

Constantinople: (1804-08)

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,500

<<Autograph Manuscript Signed.>> On the laws of contracts - financial and personal. Accompanied with sample texts, this served as a guide for community officers appointed to prepare such documents. The author was the scribe of the Beth Din of Constantinople and later Rabbi in Jerusalem. In the introduction he cites classical works on this topic such as Sepher Ha’itur, Tikun Sofrim and Nachalath Shiva. See S. Vanunu, Arzei Halevanon, p. 1063.