Tiph’ereth Yisrael / Megilath Sepher / Ma’amar Se’udath Mitzvah

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

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

author

DURAN, SOLOMON.

printer

Daniel Zanetti

Place

Venice

Publication

(c.1596)

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title and first word of text within highly wrought typographical border

references

Vinograd, Venice 768; Adams S-1419

summary

Rabbi Solomon Duran of Algiers (d. 1593) was a descendant of R. Simon ben Tzemach Duran (Tashbe”tz) and his son R. Solomon ben Simon Duran (Rashba”sh). See JE, Vol. V, p.18 (includes Duran Family Tree).. The present work revolves around the Scroll of Esther and the Feast of Purim. In Megilath Sepher, Duran delves into the halachic problematic of Esther’s betrothal to King Ahasuerus, while she was at the same time married to her uncle Mordechai (ff. 106, 122)

ff. 210 (i.e. 212). Mispaginated but complete. Few tears to inner margin, trimmed and lightly stained. Later half-vellum, rubbed. Sm. 4to

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