Perach Mateh Aharon [responsa]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $850

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author

PERACHYAH, AARON BEN CHAIM ABRAHAM HAKOHEN

printer

Moses Mendes Coutinho

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1703

Description

FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one volume. Two titles within historiated woodcut architectural borders flanked by Moses and Aaron with vignettes depicting the Ark of the Covernant and Moses bearing the Decalogue. The Tzvi Hirsch Berlin Copy

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 760; Fuks, Amsterdam 576

summary

Regarded as an important halachic descisor among his native Salonika rabbis, R. Perachyah’s responsa reflect the condition of Turkish Jewry in general and of Salonika in particular, in the 17th century

ff. (3), 249; (5), 168. Clean tear on first title, lightly browned. Contemporary blind-tooled mottled-calf, rubbed, rebacked, lacking small upper portion of spine. Folio

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