Shailoth Uteshuvoth MaHaRa”M Me’Rothenburg [responsa]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $500

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author

MEIR BEN BARUCH

printer

Moses ben Bezalel Katz

Place

Prague

Publication

1608

Description

FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. Including the Enactments of Rabbenu Gershom. Title within historiated woodcut border incorporating printer’s device (Yaari, Hebrew Printer’s Marks, no. 37). On front fly and title, Hebrew and German signatures of former owner, “Michael Kitze…Pressburg." (See description below.) Replete with erudite scholarly marginalia

references

Vinograd, Prague 161; Mehlman 753. The first complete edition containing 1020 Responsa by this supreme arbiter of Halachic authority in Germany. For an exhaustive treatment of the Maharam and his influence from the 13th-century on, see I.A. Agus, Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (1947).

summary

The first complete edition of R. Meir’s Halachic rulings, containing 1020 responsa. The Kitzes were a distinguished Pressburg rabbinic family. R. David Kitze, was Dayan of Pressburg in 1770. Later, R. Yechiel Michel Kitze (d. 1845), authored Shalmei Nedavah (Pressburg 1838-43). Michel Kitze (the past owner of the present volume) was no doubt Yechiel Michel Kitze. See N.Z. Friedmann, Otzar Harabanim, nos. 5005, 9312.

ff. 2, 5-114. Leaves 3 and 4 were destroyed during printing and are missing in all copies. Title, several first and final leaves laid down with very minute loss of text. Browned and stained. Recent morocco. Folio

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