Perach Mateh Aharon [responsa]

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $500

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author

PERACHYAH, AARON BEN CHAIM ABRAHAM HAKOHEN

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Moses Mendes Coutinho

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1703

Description

FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one volume. Two titles within historiated woodcut architectural borders flanked by Moses and Aaron with vignettes depicting the Ark of the Covenant and Moses bearing the Decalogue. With signatures including Shlomo M'Dubna on the title

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 760; Fuks, Amsterdam 576

summary

An important halachic decisor among his native Salonikan rabbis, the responsa of Aaron Perachyah (1627?-1697), reflect the condition of Turkish Jewry in general, and of Salonika in particular in the 17th-century. See EJ, Vol. XIII, col. 271

ff. (3), 249; (5), 168). Slight worming on a few leaves with some staining. Ex-library. Contemporary blind-tooled mottled calf with central gilt cartouche, rubbed and chipped. Folio

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