Sha’arei Dura - Issue VeHeter [Rabbinic Code]. With commentaries including Mavo Shearim by Nathan ben Shimshon Shapiro.

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ISAAC BEN MEIR OF DÜREN.

Sha’arei Dura - Issue VeHeter [Rabbinic Code]. With commentaries including Mavo Shearim by Nathan ben Shimshon Shapiro.

<<FIRST EDITION>> of Mavo Shearim. Title within historiated border, printer`s device illustrating the Temple on f. 3b. Signature on title. ff. 110. Browned and stained in places, marginal worming, several leaves expertly laid to size. Modern blind-tooled crushed morocco, slip-case. Folio.

Lublin:

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,750

Exhibited by the Pierpont Morgan Library, see their catalogue: Hebraica from the Valmadonna Trust (1989) no. 44. R. Isaac of Duran (second half of the 13th century) was a preeminent German Halachic authority. His Sha’arei Dura is one of the most important Codes concerning dietary laws. It is based upon the traditions of both Germany and France and became the ultimate source for Halachah in this area, quoted at length by all subsequent codifiers. The extensive commentary Mavo Shearim includes the customs of Poland and Russia. For more details on the importance of this commentary, see the comprehensive monograph by R. Eliezer Katzman in Yeshurun, Vol. 13, pp. 617-700; and Vol. 14, pp. 935-964.