Peirush HaGet [treatise on the Bill of Divorce]

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

SAMSON BEN ISAAC OF CHINON

Place

Constantinople

Publication

(1515)

Description

FIRST EDITION. Printed without a title page. On final page, numerous inscriptions of Church censors, including: "Revisto per mi Fra[te] Luigi da Bologna, 1601." (See Popper, pl. IV, no. 1)

references

Vinograd, Const. 68; Ya'ari, Const. 82; Mehlman 796

summary

R. Samson ben Isaac of Chinon (14th-century), one of the last of the Tosaphist School of France, is most famous for his Sepher Kerithuth (Constantinople, 1515), a comprehensive exposition on Talmudic methodology. See EJ, vol. XIV, col. 779

ff.12. Light stains. Later morocco, rubbed. 4to

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