Arbah Turim [The Four Orders of the Jewish Code of Law]

Estimate

$3,000–$5,000

Hammer price

$2,500

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author

JACOB BEN ASHER

printer

Gershom Soncino

Place

Fano

Publication

1516

references

Vinograd, Fano 18; See Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book pp. 88-9

summary

EXTREMELY RARE. JNUL copy incomplete. The legal compendia of Jacob b. Asher and Maimonides were the most popular post-talmudic and non-liturgical Hebrew books of the 15th and 16th centuries. The Tur is a comprehensive Halachic treatise embracing all the laws and customs incumbent both upon an individual and the Community as a whole. Its over-riding authority has been recognised and accepted by Jewish scholars of all segments of Jewry for generations. Joseph Karo's Shulchan Aruch and subsequent codes are all based upon the Tur

ff. 24 (of 86); 36 (of 74); 44 (of 45); 2 (of 117). Stained and repaired. Modern half calf. Folio. Sold not subject to return

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