(MaHaRa”M) OF ROTHENBURG. Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,600

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

author

MEIR BEN BARUCH

printer

Vicenzo Conti

Place

Cremona

Publication

1557

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within four-part historiated border

references

Vinograd, Cremona 15; Benayahu, Cremona 15; Adams M-1045

summary

The first of several, differing collections of responsa by this supreme arbiter of Halachic authority in Germany. For an exhaustive treatment of the Mahara”m and his influence from the 13th-century on, see I.A. Agus, Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (1947)

ff. 108, (15). Stained in places, inscriptions on verso of title and final leaf. Modern blind-tooled brown morocco. Sm. 4to

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