Sepher Halachoth Rav Alfas [Rabbinic code]

Estimate: $20,000–$30,000
Hammer price: $18,000

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

author

ALFASI, ISAAC BEN JACOB (RI”F).

printer

Daniel Bomberg

Place

Venice

Publication

1521-2

Description

With commentaries. Complete in three volumes. Title pages within woodcut architectural borders, opening words within white-on-black decorative woodcut vignettes

references

Vinograd, Venice 34; Haberman, Bomberg 69; St. 5310, 2 (Ed. quoque rara); not in Adams

summary

EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND IMPORTANT EDITION The RI”F is the most significant Halachic compendium prior to the Yad Ha Chazakah of Maimonides and remains an important and widely admired Code. R. Joseph Caro regarded Alfasi’s scholarship with the utmost respect and determined the laws in his Shulchan Aruch upon his authority

Vol. I: ff. 399 (of 400, lacking final blank, as in JNUL copy). * Vol. II: ff. 401-782 (i.e. 781). * Vol. III: ff. 392. With scarce final section of Shaarei Shavuoth ff. 9, (1) appended. Several score leaves laid to size with some loss in first two volumes. Titles of Vols. I-II wormed and laid down. Final signature in Vol. III loose, last leaf laid down. Some stains in places, few leaves supplied from another copy. Modern calf. Thick folio

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