Auction 26 · Lot 51
Tur, Choshen Mishpat
- Estimate
- $7,000–$10,000
- Hammer price
- $8,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
JACOB BEN ASHER OF TOLEDO.
printer
Solomon ben Moses HaLevi ben Alkabetz
Place
Guadalajara
Publication
(Ca. 1479 -1480)
Description
Third edition. First Spanish edition
references
Goff 59; Thesaurus B3; not in Steinschneider; Tishby (Vatican) 10; Tishby (Israel) 28; Goldstein 79; Offenberg 74; Wineman Cat. 51. Not in HUC; JNUL with fragment of 3 leaves; Schocken with 16 leaves; JTSA with 21 leaves. Offenberg lists just four recorded copies
summary
Only One Complete Copy Extant (in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana). See P. Tishby, The Hebrew Incunabula in the...Vatican in: Kiryat Sepher, Vol. 58, no. 4, p. 854, no.10)
Only four other copies are known. The Wineman Copy is the second most complete copy. The others (see above) are all smaller fragments.
"A watermark in the shape of an “Anneau” using Briquet’s classification, was identified; Briquet number 691 is very similar and was used on paper from Syracuse dated 1479. Perhaps the Spanish printers imported paper from southern Italy." Wineman Catalogue, number 51
ff. 45 (of 272 leaves). Present (mostly incomplete) are ff. 6, 24-31, 33, 47, 64-66, 69-71, 86, 89, 139-141, 143-145, 166-178, 180-186, plus many fragments. (Collation is based upon the unique copy in the Vatican, which however, has a slightly different layout). Extensive paper conservation. Modern morocco-backed patterned boards. Folio
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