(RIBa”SH). Teshuvoth Harav [responsa]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,600

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author

ISAAC BEN SHESHETH PERFET

printer

Eliezer Soncino

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1546

Description

FIRST EDITION. Bound in two volumes. Title within ornamental four-piece border. A wide-margined copy. Scattered learned rabbinic marginalia in a few old Sephardi hands

references

Vinograd, Const. 193; Yaari, Const. 145 (both Vinograd and Yaari offer erroneous pagination, see J. Hacker, Aresheth V, p. 483); Adams I-179

summary

One of the leading scholars of his day, R. Isaac ben Shesheth was a disciple of R. Nissim Gerondi and a colleague of Don Hasdai Crescas. His Teshuvoth Harav contains 518 responsa, dealing with all phases of Halachic law and is particularly important for the social history of the Jews of 14th-century Spain and North Africa

ff. 282 + 21ff. of indices (20 before the title and one from a smaller copy tipped in (inverted) at conclusion Vol. I). Stains. Ex-library. Modern calf. Folio

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