Sepher Agur [Jewish laws and precepts]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

LANDAU, JACOB BEN JUDAH.

printer

Gershom Soncino

Place

Rimini

Publication

1525

Description

Second edition. Initial letters of opening word within white on black decorative woodcut vignettes.

references

Vinograd, Rimini 6; Adams L-107; no copy in the JNUL

summary

The Agur contains fourteen hundred and thirty nine sections, following the order of the Tur. It deals largely with ritual, the laws of Sabbath and the Festivals. It was the last rabbinic code written by a German scholar before the Shulchan Aruch was compiled. R. Jacob Landau’s purpose was to add the decisions of the later German scholars, such as RJacob Moelin (Maharil) and R. Israel Isserlein, which were omitted by Jacob ben Asher in his Tur.

ff. (97 of 102?), lacking title and at least two supplementary leaves. Dampstained, marginal repairs to first few leaves slightly affecting text, last few leaves detached. Recent mottled-calf backed boards, rubbed at extremities, lower cover detatched. Sm. 4to

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