Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,600

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

author

MIZRACHI, ELIJAH.

printer

Solomon Ya’abetz

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1560

Description

FIRST EDITION. An attractive wide margined copy.

references

Vinograd, Const. 217 (records ff.158 complete); Mehlman 758; Yaari, Const. 161; Adams M-1516

summary

Elijah Mizrachi (c.1450-1526) was one of the most outstanding Rabbinic authorities of the Ottoman Empire. His responsa are of great historic interest, written amidst the turbulence of the Spanish Inquisition, and concern the Jewish exiles who migrated toTurkey. The cancelled leaves 109-10 are extant in only two copies. They contain the author’s protestations concerning his son’s alleged conversion to Islam.

ff. 158 (160), lacking as all copies ff. 109-110. Dampstained in places, trace marginal foxing on a few leaves, small neat repair to title page. Later tan mottled-calf boards, rubbed, lacking lower portion of spine. Folio

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