Auction 5 · Lot 66

Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

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

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

author

CHABIB, LEVI IBN JACOB (RaLBa”CH).

printer

Giovanni di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1565

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch. Astrological and calendrical charts

references

Vinograd, Venice 508; Mehlman 715 (noting textual variants); Adams L-607

summary

Following the author’s move from Spain to Portugal in 1492, Chabib, along with his father were forcibly baptized. The pair were able to escape to Salonika where they soon supplied a father-and-son team of leadership for the “Gerush Sefarad,” the community of Spanish exiles settled in Salonika. In time, the RaLBa”CH moved to the Holy Land in order to atone for his baptism as a youth, where he became embroiled over the issue of reconstituting the ancient Sanhedrin in Safed - a matter of which he was intensely opposed. See M. Benayahu, Chidushah shel Hasemichah Betzfat in: Yitzhak F. Baer Jubilee Volume (1960) pp.248-69

ff.(4),210,217-328. Lacking two errata leaves. ff.237-8 mispaginated. Opening and closing leaves repaired, dampstained. Modern calf-backed boards. Folio

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