Arbah Turim [Rabbinic Code]

Estimate: $2,500–$3,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

JACOB BEN ASHER

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Hans Jacob Hanau

Place

Hanau

Publication

1610

Description

Four parts in one volume. Historiated title. With many signatures and inscriptions in various Aschkenazic hands, including illustrations signed by the scribe David ben Mordechai Melamed, a listing of births of children dated 1658-1663 on verso of f. 2, other signatures are Michael ben Moshe on verso of title, Meir Ossenheim on final leaf. The blank after folio 117 contains an inscription dated 1684 in Yiddish pertaining to the rescue of the writer from the River Rhine

references

Vinograd, Hanau 3

ff. 117, (1), 91, (1), 59, (1)140. Crude repair on f. 2 with some text loss, other repairs on ff. 3, 4, 9, 10 not affecting text, stained, slight worming, scattered marginalia. Modern morocco backed boards. Sm. folio

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