Auction 41 · Lot 157

(RIBa”SH). Teshuvoth Harav [responsa]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,100

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author

ISAAC B”R SHESHETH PERFET

printer

Eliezer Soncino

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1546

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within four-part ornamental border. A wide margined copy

references

Vinograd, Const. 193; Yaari, Const. 145; (both Vinograd and Yaari offer erroneous pagination, see J. Hacker, Areshet V, p. 483); Adams I-179

summary

One of the leading scholars of his day, the Riba”sh was a disciple of R. Nissim Gerondi and a colleague of Don Hasdai Crescas. His Teshuvoth Harav contains five hundred and eighteen responsa, dealing with all phases of Halachic law and is particularly important for the social history of the Jews of 14th-century Spain and North Africa. The work was originally sold in single gatherings and distributed during prayers on the Sabbath. Certain Rabbis were outraged by this practice which they felt desecrated the sanctity of the day. See S. Assaf, Mekoroth u-Mechkarim, (1946) pp. 255-56 for a responsa concerning this matter. The last book printed by Soncino in his Turkish sojourn

ff. (283), (10) (lacking 11 leaves of indices). Stained, slight worming in places, slight tear on f. 33, marginal notes in a Sephardic hand extensive. Ex-library. Later calf-backed marbled boards, rubbed, spine chipped. Folio

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