Shailoth Uteshuvoth...Manhir Einei Chachamim [responsa]

Estimate: $350–$500
Hammer price: $650

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

author

MEIR BEN GEDALIAH OF LUBLIN.

printer

Pietro & Lorenzo Bragadin

Place

Venice

Publication

1618

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch. The Mayer Sulzberger copy

references

VIinograd, Venice 1108; Mehlman 839

summary

These responsa by the MaHaRa”M of Lublin (1558-1616) offer the earliest source of information on the Council of Four Lands, and are altogether significant as relating to Polish Jewry. Regarding the cancelled leaf (f. 14) found in only one copy (Library of Agudath Chassidei Chabad, New York), see Y. Rivkind in: Sepher Hayovel Lichvod Alexander Marx (1950) pp. 427-28 (illustrated)

ff. 114. Trimmed, title worn. Early 20th-century half-morocco, rubbed, upper cover detached. Sm. folio

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