Arba’ah Turim.
AUCTION 74 |
Thursday, November 09th,
2017 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art
Lot 113
JACOB BEN ASHER
Arba’ah Turim.
Augsburg: Chaim ba’r David, et al. 1540
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
PRICE REALIZED $21,000
<<Jacob ben Asher’s Tur. A Rare and Important German Edition.>>
A fundamental Rabbinic treatise embracing all the laws and customs incumbent both on an individual and the community as a whole. Its overriding authority has been recognized and accepted by Jewish scholars for generations.
The publisher praises this edition on the title-page as follows: “All previous editions of the Turim have faults and are crippled… especially the last two parts… I called upon my son-in-law Yoseph bar Yakar and told him… you are a scholar, dig into the depths of the halacha… you must repair the problems. …We obtained a Tur that was checked and corrected by our teacher, HaGaon R. Abraham of Prague the “Light of our Generation” and compared every page two or three times.”
<<The present copy entirely complete, together with the rare two leaf index at end which Steinschneider notes is frequently missing.>>