Sepher Agur [Code of Jewish law]

Estimate

$1,500–$2,500

Hammer price

Not recorded

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author

LANDAU, JACOB.

printer

Gershom Soncino

Place

Rimini

Publication

1525

Description

Second edition

references

Vinograd, Rimini 6; Adams L-107; no copy in the JNUL

summary

The Agur contains fourteen hundred and thirty nine sections and follows the order of the Tur. It deals largely with ritual, the laws of Sabbath and the Festivals. It was the last rabbinic code written by a German scholar before the Shulchan Aruch was compiled. The Author’s intention was to update the decisions of the Tur, by grafting on to them the opinions of later German scholars: Rabbis Jacob Moelin, Israel Isserlein, Jacob Weil, Joseph Colon, and his father Judah Landau (d. 1464). See EJ, Vol. X, cols. 1393-94

ff. 86 (of 102). Lacks 12 opening and 4 closing leaves. Several leaves laid to size. Stained and wormed, marginal paper repairs. Later blind-tooled half-calf, (spine mis-titled). 4to

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