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Auction 11 · Lot 89

LURIA, SOLOMON.

Estimate
$800–$1,200
Hammer price
$2,750

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

Place

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Publication

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Description

(MaHaRSH”L). Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]. Second edition. Title within architectural arch. ff. 72 (i.e. ff.70). [Vinograd, Lublin 76; not in Adams]. Lublin, Kalonymus ben Mordechai Jaffe, 1599. * Atereth Shlomo [novellae to Isaac Dueren’s Shaarei Dura]. Second edition. ff. 30,30-54,7. [Vinograd, Lublin 77; Mehlman 740]. Lublin, Joel ben Aaron Halevi and Partners. 1599. * MEIR BEN BARUCH (MaHaRa”M) OF ROTHENBURG. Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]. FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. Including the Amendments of Rabbeinu Gershom. Title within historiated woodcut border incorporating printer’s device (Yaari, Printer’s Marks no. 37). ff. 2, 5-114. Leaves 3 and 4 were destroyed during printing and are missing in all copies. [Vinograd, Prague 161; Mehlman 753]. Prague, Moses ben Bezalel Katz, 1608.

summary

The first complete edition containing 1020 Responsa by the MeHaRa”M Mi’Rothenburg. For an exhaustive treatment of the Mahara”m and his influence from the 13th-century on, see I.A. Agus, Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (1947) Mahara”m, See also Lot 94
Lightly browned and stained in places. Recent boards, upper cover detached. Folio
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