Auction 46 · Lot 181

Levush Ir Shushan [commentary on Choshen Mishpat]

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: $1,800

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

author

JAFFE, MORDECHAI

printer

Y. Prostitz

Place

Cracow

Publication

1598

Description

FIRST EDITION. Signatures on title including "Eliezer Kurinaldi who donated (the book) to the the community of Sabbionetta."

references

Vinograd, Cracow 204

summary

Mordechai Jaffe (c.1535-1612), a native of Prague, studied in his youth in Poland under the greatest scholars of the day, R. Solomon Luria (Maharsha”l) and R. Moses Isserles (Ram”a). In subsequent years, he would sojourn in Italy and once again in Poland, before finally returning to his native Prague in 1592, at which time he succeeded the famed R. Judah Löw (Mahara”l) as Av Beth Din. The Levush remains to this day one of the mainstays of the Halacha - especially the Aschkenazic tradition.

ff. 224. Scattered staining, trace marginal worming, taped repair on final leaf. Contemporary calf, variously worn. Folio

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