(Ra”N). Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: $2,100

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author

GERONDI, NISSIM BEN REUBEN

printer

Moses Parnas the Physician

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1548

Description

Second edition. Title within 4-part ornamental border. Title with signature in Hebrew and German of Moshe Guideman (1835-1918), Rabbi of Vienna

references

Vinograd, Const. 197; Yaari, Const. 147; Mehlman 769

summary

This edition combined the responsa of the first Rome edition. along with those cited in Teshuvoth Ha-Rivash, Constantinople 1546-7. Reflecting the social-history of the period, these responsa especially focus upon the economic difficulties of the Jewish Community of Barcelona during the second half of the 14th-century

ff. 79 (of 80), lacking f. 79. Occasional marginalia. Later boards. 4to

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