Eiduth BeYa'akov [responsa]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $300

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

author

BOTON, JACOB BEN ABRAHAM, DE

printer

Abraham b. David Nachman & Yom Tov Becher Moshe Confilias

Place

Salonika

Publication

1720

Description

On title, Sephardic monogram signatures of former owners. On f. 1r. stamp of Raphael Meir Panigel (see below)

references

Vinograd, Salonika 220

summary

A native of Bulgaria, Raphael Meir Panigel (1804-1893) served in the last decades of the 19th-century as Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. During a long and illustrious career, Panigel acted as emissary of Hebron to Italy, and was received at the Vatican by Pope Gregory XVI. See Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Israel, pp. 691-2, 739; EJ, Vol. XIII, cols. 56-57.

ff. 273. Wanting final leaf (blank?). ff. 202 and 204 duplicated, lacking ff. 201 and 203. Trimmed and browned, few small taped repirs with minimal loss. Modern calf. Folio.

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