Arba’ah Turim [Code of Jewish Law]

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

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autographed Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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JACOB BEN ASHER.

Arba’ah Turim [Code of Jewish Law]

Bound in two volumes. First word of each section in decorative vignette; ff. 51-54 and 56 with diagrams of Eruvin; ff. 58b-59a with calendar. Extensive marginal notes and corrections in various hands. ff. 349 (of 357). Vol. I: ff. 174. Lacking ff. 1-2 and ff. 3-4 of sig. 2. Vol. II: ff. 175. Lacking f. 2 of sig. 15, portion of table of contents of Even Ha’ezer. Ex-library, variously trimmed, worn and stained, crude taped repairs with loss, wormed. Recent calf. Folio. Vinograd, Const. 167; Mehlman 729.

Constantinople: Eliezer ben Gershom Soncino 1538-40

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,000

A fundamental Halachic treatise. The scholarly editor, R. Yechiel ben Reuben Aschkenazi, added to this edition marginal notes citing the Ri’f, Ro’sh and Ramba’m indicating sources not noted in earlier editions.