She’erith Yoseph [on the methodology of the Talmud]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $475

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author

VERGA, JOSEPH IBN.

printer

Moses Elishama Zifroni for Tommaso Ruffinelli

Place

Mantua

Publication

1593

Description

Second edition. The Adolph Lewisohn copy

references

Vinograd, Mantua 186; not in Adams

summary

Although Mantua was comparatively liberal in it’s treatments of resident Jews, Hebrew printers were obliged to undertake their work at the presses of Christian printers who had secured a monopoly of the right to issue Hebrew books. See Amram, pp. 324-5 and 333

ff. 44. Signed by the censors Giovanni Dominico Carretto and Clemente Renatto on title, this copy uncensored. Recent gilt-ruled sprinkled calf, spine in compartments, a.e.g. 8vo

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