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Auction 11 · Lot 154

Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

Estimate
$500–$700
Hammer price
$1,000

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

author

Tzahalon, Yom Tov

printer

Vendramin

Place

Venice

Publication

1694

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title page within typographic border surrounding depiction of the Tabernacle, on verso diagrams of the Temple and the Table with Shewbread; positioning of the Temple on Mount Zion depicted on f.4v

references

Vinograd, Venice, 1467

summary

Of interest are the responsa to the communities of the Orient who sought advice whilst the Author visited them as an emissary from Safed. The work was published by his grandson Yom Tov ben Akiva, who added his own novellae to Tractate Bava Metziah
ff (9), 223, 25. Tear to f.192. Modern morocco-backed boards. Sm. folio
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