Tur, Yoreh De’ah

Estimate: $5,000–$7,000
Hammer price: $4,500

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

author

JACOB BEN ASHER OF TOLEDO

printer

Abraham ben Solomon Conat of Mantua and Abraham ben Chaim of Pesaro

Place

Mantua-Ferrara

Publication

1477

references

Vinograd Mantua 8; Goff 55; Cohen (YU) 5; Goldstein 13; Offenberg 70; Steinschneider p. 5500 no.20; Thes. A-4 ; Tishby 25; Wineman Cat. 12. No copy in Cambridge University or HUC. The JNUL copy possesses 10 leaves only; JTSA copy possesses 40 leaves

summary

See the extensive description of this edition in Gershon Cohen’s Hebrew Incunabula [in the]Yeshiva University Library (1984) pp. 17-21. According to Cohen, “It is almost certain” that YU has the only complete copy extant. The fonts designed by Conat’s press imitated the style of medieval manuscripts. Conat did not complete this Tur (publishing only the first 31 leaves), the project was completed in Ferrara by Abraham ben Chaim de Tintori, using Conat’s fonts with improvements

ff. 5, chaps. 203-235 the laws of menustration and vows, (of ff. 92). Each leaf laid down, and to size, with significant loss of text. Modern vellum-backed marbled boards. Folio

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