Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $500

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

author

ASCHKENAZI, BEZALEL BEN ABRAHAM

printer

Matteo Zanetti and Comin Presegno

Place

Venice

Publication

(1595)

Description

FIRST EDITION. Printer’s device on title - escutcheon with three fleurs-de-lys surmounted by crown (not in Yaari, Printer’s Marks), surrounded by elaborate ornamental border. Opening blank signed by Eliakim Getzel Eidlisz, title-page signed by Tuviah Baruch, Av Beth Din of Kutna. The Alexander Marx copy

references

Vinograd, Venice 813; not in Adams

summary

The highly wrought title-page was a hallmark of the Zanetti family of printers, The author succeeded Chaim Vital as leader of the Jerusalem Community in 1587. His relentless pursuit of old manuscripts, even hiring scribes to assist in copying and editing, resulted in his magnum opus, the Shitah Mekubetzeth

ff. 114. Stained, rear free-endpaper removed. 17th-century calf, spine gilt, rubbed. Sm. folio

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