Sepher Halachoth Rav Alfas [Rabbinic code] - Nezikin. Vol. III only (of 3).

AUCTION 70 | Thursday, September 22nd, 2016 at 1:00

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Lot 145

ALFASI, ISAAC BEN JACOB (RI”F).

Sepher Halachoth Rav Alfas [Rabbinic code] - Nezikin. Vol. III only (of 3).

With Mordechai and commentaries. Title pages within woodcut architectural borders, opening words within white-on-black decorative woodcut vignettes. <<EXTENSIVE SCHOLARLY MARGINALIA IN AN ITALIAN HAND>> (17th/18th century). ff. 392. (Shaarei Shavuoth section wanting - some copies contain final section of Shaarei Shavuoth ff. 9, (1) which was appended to copies of this edition after the colophon on f. 392). Title page repaired, previous owner’s marks, some staining, censored in places. Modern calf. Lg. folio. Vinograd, Venice 34.

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1522

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $6,000

Although the author of these extensive marginal notes is unidentified, there is a lengthy note at the bottom of f. 122b ending with the statement: “Mechidushei K[evod] M[oreinu] H[arav] R. Hillel Y[ishmereihu] T[zuro] V[ekono]”