Arba'ah Turim [Rabbinic code]

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $2,500

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author

JACOB BEN ASHER

printer

Vicenzo Conti

Place

Cremona

Publication

1558

Description

Four parts in one. Title within architectural arch. Letters of opening word of each section within a decorative vignette and woodcut border-piece. Censor's inscription on final page.

references

Vinograd, Cremona 19; Benayahu, Cremona, 20a, p. 203; not in Adams

summary

A fundamental Rabbinic treatise embracing all the laws and customs incumbent both upon the individual and the Community as a whole. Its over-riding authority has been recognised and accepted by Jewish scholars for generations. The arrangement of laws in the Arba'ah Turim provided the matrix or basic structure of R. Joseph Caro's Shulchan Aruch, the mainstay of Jewish Law to this day. Rare edition, the JNUL copy incomplete.

ff. 117, (1 blank), 59, (1 blank), 91, (1 blank), 139. Bound out of sequence (Even ha-Ezer before Yoreh De'ah). Waterstained. Several leaves remargined with loss of few letters of side-notes. Fine modern blind-tooled morocco with gilt florets. Provided with matching slipcase. Folio

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