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(RaSHB”A). Piskei Chalah [Rabbinic law - the precept of setting aside “chalah”]

Auction 25 · Lot 51

(RaSHB”A). Piskei Chalah [Rabbinic law - the precept of setting aside “chalah”]

Estimate
$7,000–$9,000
Hammer price
$7,500

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

author

SOLOMON IBN ADRET

printer

n.p.

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1515

Description

FIRST EDITION. Some marginal annotations, owner’s signature on final leaf in a Sephardic hand

references

Vinograd, Const. 70; Yaari, Const. 84; Adams S-1406

summary

Exceptionally rare monograph published prior to the Rashb"a’s larger works of novellae. The author was the foremost Spanish rabbi of the late 13th-early14th century whose authoritative and highly influential rulings were an important source to Joseph Caro's Shulchan Aruch
ff.14. Frayed, expertly silked and laid to size, washed, final leaf missing three words. Modern vellum. 8vo
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