Shailoth Uteshuvoth MeHaRa”M Mi’Rothenburg [responsa]

Estimate: $600–$800
Hammer price: $650

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author

MEIR BEN BARUCH (MaHaRa”M) OF ROTHENBURG.

printer

Moses ben Bezalel Katz

Place

Prague

Publication

1608

Description

FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. Including the Ammendments of Rabbenu Gershom. Title within historiated woodcut border incorporating printer’s device (Yaari, Printer’s Marks no. 37)

references

Vinograd, Prague 161; Mehlman 753

summary

The first complete edition containing 1020 Responsa by this supreme arbiter of Halachic authority in Germany. For an exhaustive treatment of the Maharam and his influence from the 13th-century on, see I.A. Agus, Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (1947)

ff. 2, 5-114. Leaves 3 and 4 were destroyed during printing and are missing in all copies. Marginal worming on title page and first few leaves taped. Browned and stained. Modern boards. Folio

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