Auction 25 · Lot 52

(RaSHB”A). Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: $3,500

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

author

SOLOMON IBN ADRET.

printer

The Company of Silk-Weavers

Place

Bologna

Publication

1539

Description

Second edition. Present with indices (missing from most copies), additional title. Marginal notes in an Italian Sephardic hand. A wide-margined copy

references

Vinograd, Bologna 14; Mehlman 693 (incomplete); Adams S-1407

summary

The author was the foremost Spanish rabbi of the late 13th-14th century whose works are studied in all Torah Academies to this day. As a respondent, the RaSHB”A answers inquiries directly, without unneccessary lengthy scholastic discussion. The number of his responsa, including this pseudo-Nachmanides collection, reaches well over three thousand, with inquries addressed from all parts of the world, and touching upon all phases of law - religious, family and civil, as well as theological concerns. See M. Waxman, History of Jewish Literature (1933), Vol. II, pp.165-167

ff. (16), 216. Owner’s inscription in an Italian hand “Mima’oth Hekdesh shel HeChasid... Chaim Pesaro Zechutho Yagen Aleinu.” Signed by censors. Second title remargined. Paper repair to f.8, opening and closing leaves variously stained in places, otherwise an attractive copy. Modern boards. Folio

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