Arbah Turim [rabbinic code]

Estimate: $6,000–$7,000
Hammer price: $5,500

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author

JACOB BEN ASHER.

printer

Vicenzo Conti

Place

Cremona

Publication

1558

Description

Four parts in one. Title within architectural arch. Letters of opening word of each section within a decorative vignette and woodcut border pieces. Marginalia in an old hand

references

Vinograd, Cremona 19; not in Adams; JNUL copy incomplete

summary

A fundamental Rabbinic treatise embracing all the laws and customs incumbent both on an individual and the Community as a whole. Its over-riding authority has been recognised and accepted by Jewish scholars for generations

ff. 177, (1), 91 (1), 59 (1),139. Title and final two leaves laid to size, several leaves expertly remargined, stained in places, Contemporary blind-tooled calf over heavy wooden boards with brass corner pieces, rubbed and rebacked, lacking clasps. Folio

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