Mishpatei Shmuel [responsa]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $1,200

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

author

KELAI, SAMUEL BEN MOSES

printer

Daniel Zanneti

Place

Venice

Publication

1598

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural form oval cartouche framed by a decorative woodcut floral border. Printers device on verso of final leaf, obscured by ink-stain (see Yaari’s Printers Marks no. 49). The Tzvi Hirsch Berlin Copy, with his signature on title page.

references

Vinograd, Venice 879; not in Adams

summary

The highly wrought title-page was a hallmark of the Zanetti family of printers. The author was the son-in-law of BENJAMIN BEN MATTITHIAH (OF ARTA), the author of Sepher Benyamin Ze’ev, and a disciple of R. David Cohen of Corfu. The title page of this volume also bears the ownership inscription and signature of R. Issachar Baer Jeiteles, dated 1654. A member of the prominent Prague Family, Issachar Baer served as leader of the Prague community from 1666 until his death in 1685.

ff. 181,(2). Stains in places, scattered marginslia, ownership inscriptions on title page. Contmporary vellum, rebacked. Folio

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