Sepher Binyamin Ze’ev [responsa]

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: $4,000

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author

BENJAMIN BEN MATATHIAS (OF ARTA).

printer

Daniel Bomberg

Place

Venice

Publication

1539

Description

FIRST EDITION. On title, inscription by Israel Isaac Este. Scattered learned rabbinic marginalia in old hand

references

Vinograd, Venice 167; Mehlman 702; Habermann, Bomberg 161

summary

Of a somewhat disputatious nature, R. Benjamin of Arta (Epirus) issued this mammoth collection of 450 legal decisions largely as self-justification following a tendentious Halachic feud with R. David Hakohen of Corfu concerning Agunoth. The work contains a distinctly independent tone in its rulings, but is often cited by R. Moses Isserles (the ReM”A), thus assuring its permanent place in the annals of Halacha.

ff. 367, (2), 376-399, 399-575. Ex-library. Some leaves waterstained, marginal worming. Modern morocco. Thick 4to

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