Shailoth Uteshuvoth MeHaRa”M Mi’Rothenburg [responsa]

Estimate: $700–$900
Hammer price: $750

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author

MEIR BEN BARUCH OF ROTHENBURG

printer

Moses ben Bezalel Katz

Place

Prague

Publication

1608

Description

FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. Including the Ammendments of Rabbeinu Gershom. Title within historiated woodcut border incorporating printer’s device (Yaari, Printer’s Marks no. 37)

references

Vinograd, Prague 161; Mehlman 753

summary

The first complete edition containing 1020 Responsa by this supreme arbiter of Halachic authority in Germany. For an exhaustive treatment of the Maharam and his influence from the 13th-century on, see I.A. Agus, Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (1947)

ff. 2, 5-114. Leaves 3 and 4 were destroyed during printing and are missing in all copies. Title laid down with small portion of woodcut provided in facsimile, marginal repairs to last few leaves. Browned and stained. Recent boards. Folio

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