Auction 9 · Lot 258

Levush Malchuth [elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch]

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: $2,500

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

author

JAFFE, MORDECHAI BEN ABRAHAM.

printer

Giovanni Calioni

Place

Venice

Publication

1620

Description

Third edition. Four parts in two volumes. Divisional title pages. A

references

Vinograd, Venice 1122-25

summary

An Attractive Set in a Striking Binding. A Halachic work issued as a “midway between two extremes: the lengthy Beith Yoseph of Karo on the one hand, and the Shulchan Aruch with Isserles’ Mappah, which was too brief on the other.” EJ, IX cols.1263-4. In total, the work contains ten “Attires” (Levushim), including Jaffe’s commentaries on classic meta-halachic works. As a whole, “the Levush Malchuth is thus not only a code of law which sums up the Halachic scholarship of the day, but rather an entire summa of rabbinic Judaism both halachic and non-halachic.” See L. Kaplan, Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century (1983) p.274

I:Orach Chaim: Levush Hatechleth Vehachur ff. 201, (2). II: Yoreh De’ah: Levush Atereth Zahav ff. 148, (2). III: Even Ha’ezer: Levush Butz Ve’argaman ff. 87. IV: Choshen Mishpat: Levush Ir Shushan ff. 162, (2). Lightly browned, scattered foxing and dampstaining. Uniform elaborately blind-tooled brown calf over wooden boards, spine in compartments, rubbed. With clasps and remnants of hinges. Folio

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