Sepher Agur [Jewish laws and precepts]

LANDAU, JACOB BEN JUDAH.

Gershom Soncino

Rimini

1525

Second edition. Title within architectural arch with previous owner's inscription. Initial letters of opening word within white-on-black decorative woodcut vignettes

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

The Agur contains fourteen hundred and thirty nine sections, following the order of the Tur. It deals largely with ritual, the laws of the 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 Jacob Moelin and Israel Isserlein, which were omitted by Jacob ben Asher in his Tur