Auction 12 · Lot 49

Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $3,000

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

author

ASHER BEN YECHIEL (RO”SH)

printer

Meir Parenzo for Alvise Bragadin

Place

Venice

Publication

1552

Description

Second edition. Printer’s device on title (Yaari, Printer’s Marks no. 18). The Tzvi Hirsch Berlin Copy, with his signature in Hebrew and German on title and front free-endpaper, and with his extensive marginal notations.

references

Vinograd, Venice 451; not in Adams

summary

The collection of responsa of R. Asher ben Yechiel is divided into one hundred and eight groups called Kelallim, with reponsa in each dealing with one subject. The responsa reflect the conditions of Jewish life in central and southern Spain. For a discussion of these conditions as apparant from R. Asher’s responsa, see M. Waxman, Vol. II ff.167-169. A manuscript notation on f. 14 states that most all of Tzvi Hirsch Berlin’s extensive marginalia are additional responsa of R. Asher, copied from a later edition.

ff. 158. Lightly browned, extensive marginalia. Later blind-tooled chestnut morocco, rebacked, rubbed at edges. Folio

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