Auction 41 · Lot 140

Teshuvoth HaRaDa”CH [responsa]

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: $3,500

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

HAKOHEN, DAVID, OF CORFU

printer

Eliezer Soncino

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1537

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within Soncino’s striking historiated border

references

Vinograd, Const. 160; Yaari, Const. 125; Mehlman 703

summary

David ben Chaim Hakohen (beg. 15th century) was rabbi at Corfu and later in Patras, Greece. He was a disciple of the great halachist R. Judah Mintz (MaHaR”I Mintz). At times he clashed over Halachic issues with R. Moses Alashkar and also R. Benjamin Ze’ev. The title page tells of the miraculous rescue of the present manuscript from fire in the home of the author’s son R. Chaim Cohen in Adrianople, Turkey. This collection of 33 responsa enjoyed immense popularity, enjoying several editions. See JE, Vol. IV, p. 463

ff. (225). Variously stained, worn in places, some worming affecting text, scattered marginalia in a Sephardic hand. Ex-library. Later vellum-backed boards, loose. Sm. 4to

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