Beith Halevi [Rabbinic law]

Estimate

$400–$600

Hammer price

$750

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author

HOROWITZ, ISAIAH

printer

Bragadin

Place

Venice

Publication

1666

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural border

references

Vinograd, Venice 1376

summary

The grandson of the great SHeLa”H Hakodosh, Isaiah ben Jacob (1633-98) was born in Cracow, where he received his early education, before studying at the Yeshivah of Brest-Litovsk and subsequently Vilna. He fled to Italy to escape the Chmielnicki massacres and variously lived in Ferrara, Mantua and Verona. This, his only published work, comprises novellae to Choshen Mishpat parts 69-149 as well as eighteen cases concerning the principles of the “migo” plea-bargain. The work was greatly prized by the Talmudists of the era. See EJ, VIII col. 994

ff. 120,(4). Dampstained, trace marginal worming, signed by censors on recto of final leaf. Later paper boards, titled in an old hand, rubbed. 4to

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