(Arbah Turim) Yoreh De’ah [Rabbinic Code]. With commentary “Beith Yoseph” by JOSEPH KARO

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: $1,800

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author

JACOB BEN ASHER

printer

Giovanni di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1574

Description

Title within wodcut architectural arch. Opening words within decorative woodcut border-piece. The rare title-page to Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah, Venice, Giovanni Griffio, 1567, tipped in and attached to first leaf. First page with previous owner’s signature Tzvi Hirsch Katz (possibly the Dayan of Lvov, martyred in 1664, see Otzar Ha-Rabanim no. 17316)

references

Vinograd, Venice 595; Habermann, di Gara 30; not in Adams

summary

Afterword by the editor and proofreader, Yachya ben Abraham ibn Chamu, hopeful that the publisher, Chaim ibn Saruk, will successfully influence the appropriate authorities and continue to permit the further printing of Hebrew Books

ff. 400, (28). Table of Contents bound in at front, prior to the title-page. Marginalia and corrections in an Ashkenazic hand. Some dampstains, slight worming frayed edges affecting text on the final leaves, opening three leaves torn affecting text. Contemporary boards, defective. Folio

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