Piskei Beth Din [Halachic responsa issued by the rabbis of Fez]
AUCTION 68 |
Thursday, April 07th,
2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art
Lot 145
(MOROCCO).
Piskei Beth Din [Halachic responsa issued by the rabbis of Fez]
Fez: 17th-18th centuries
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
PRICE REALIZED $58,000
A fascinating collection of autograph and signed responsa by the rabbis who served on the Rabbinical Courts of Fez. A significant number are by R. Yehuda ibn Attar.
Among the signatories here include Rabbis: Ya’akov ibn Tzur, Moshe Almogo, Yitzchak ibn Masoud, Shem Tov ibn Yitzchak, Yehudah Edri, Salimon Elcharar, Shlomo Toledano, Shmuel Sa’adon, Elazar Zevulun, Yitzchak Pinto, Moshe Toledano, Moshe Turgeman, Moshe Atia, Yitzchak Toledano, Chaim Toledano, Chaim Almosnino, Nehemya Yehudah HaKohen, Shaul Shmuel Toledano, Maimon Berdugo, David Elbaz, Yitzchak Berdugo, Yekuthiel Berdugo and countless others, each with their own distinctively illustrative signatures.
<<These manuscript volumes are exceedingly rich with original source materials, invaluable in undertaking necessary research that would shed tremendous insight into the social and religious make-up of the Jews of Fez, a community that has been extant in Morocco since the 9th-century.>>