Tur, Even Ha’Ezer

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $950

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 58; Goldsten 81; Offenberg 73; Steinschneider p.5500 no.36; Thes. B2; Wineman Cat. no. 52. Not in JNUL; HUC with 29 leaves; JTS with 2 leaves. Offenberg lists just three recorded copies

summary

Only One Complete Copy Extant (in the Bodleian Library, Oxford). Only two other fragments are known (see above). Most of Alkabetz’s output is extant only in the form of fragments. It is unknown if he printed the Orach Chaim, the final portion of the Tur. See H.C. Zafren, Studies in Bibliography and Booklore Vol. XII (1979) p. 45

Small fragments containing the laws of Ketuboth and Gittin. Modern morocco-backed patterned boards. Folio

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