Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,200

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

MIZRACHI, ELIJAH.

printer

Solomon Ya’avetz

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1560

Description

FIRST EDITION

references

Vinograd, Constantinople 217; Yaari, Constantinople 161; Mehlman 758; Adams M-1516

summary

Elijah Mizrachi (c.1450-1526) was one of the most outstanding Rabbinic authorities of the Ottoman Empire. His responsa are of great historic interest, written amidst the turbulence of the Spanish Inquisition and concerning the Jewish exiles who arrived in Turkey. Only two copies are extant complete with ff.109-10, these pages were cancelled as they contain the author’s denial that his son converted to Islam

ff.158 (of 160), lacking as usual ff.109-10, browned and stained in places, some worming, final 5 ff. with some loss though text supplied in recent hand, marginalia, modern cloth, folio

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