She'eloth u-Teshuvoth Mahara"m Mintz [responsa]

Estimate: $1,800–$2,200
Hammer price: $1,800

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author

MINTZ, MOSES BEN ISAAC

printer

Isaac Prostitz

Place

Cracow

Publication

1617

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within decorative woodcut border with floral and bird motifs

references

Vinograd, Cracow 330

summary

R. Moses Mintz was one of the greatest German Halachic scholars of the 15th-century. As Rabbi of Wuerzburg, Bamberg, Nuremberg and Posen, he featured prominently in communal life in Germany and beyond - especially Italy, where his cousin, Isaac Mintz, served as Rabbi of Padua. His responsa are important for the delineation of Aschkenazi custom, including the Takanoth of Rabbenu Gershom and Takanoth ShU”M (Speyer, Worms and Mainz). See EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 65-66

ff. 156, (12). Mispaginated but complete. Lightly browned and waterstained. Institutional stamps on title and last leaf. Title, ff. 2-3,114, and final leaf laid to size. Expert repair on f.126. Modern blind-tooled calf. Sm. 4to

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