(RYBa”SH). Teshuvoth Harav [responsa]

Estimate: $800–$1,000
Hammer price: $800

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

author

ISAAC B”R SHESHETH PERFET

printer

n.p.

Place

Riva di Trento

Publication

1559

Description

Second Edition. Three initial title letters within floral woodcut vignettes and gilt. Stamps on title

references

Vinograd, Riva di Trento 13; not in Adams

summary

R. Isaac bar Sheshet Perfet (1326-1408) was a Spanish luminary who fled Valencia in the wave of persecution of 1391, settling in Algiers. His responsa, one of the pillars upon which Joseph Karo’s Shulchan Aruch later rested, are an invaluable source of historical information concerning the Jews of Spain and North Africa in the 14th century. See EJ IX, cols. 32-3.

ff. 415, (9). A few pages laid to size. Lightly browned and stained in places. Modern boards. 4to

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