Teshuvoth She'eloth [responsa]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $1,700

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

author

MIZRACHI, ELIJAH.

printer

Solomon ben Isaac Ya’abetz

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1560

Description

FIRST EDITION

references

Vinograd, Const. 217 (records ff.158 complete); Mehlman 758 (likewise); Yaari, Const. 161; Adams M-1516

summary

Elijah Mizrachi (c.1450-1526) was one of the most outstanding Rabbinic authorities of the Ottoman Empire. His responsa are of great historic interest, written amidst the turbulence of the Spanish Inquisition and concerning the Jewish exiles who migrated to Turkey. The cancelled leaves 109-10 (responsum 66) are extant in only two copies. They contain the author’s protestations and polemic with R. J. Algazi concerning his son’s alleged conversion to Islam

ff. 158 (of 160). Wanting, as all copies, ff. 109-110. Several leaves bound out of sequence. Marginal paper repairs to opening 4 leaves, dampstained, two loose leaves. Contemporary vellum, rubbed, gutter split. Sm. folio

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