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Auction 47 · Lot 14

(RaSHB”A). Torath HaBayith HaKatzar [compendium of the author’s lengthier legal manual]

Estimate
$300–$500
Hammer price
$425

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author

ADRET, SOLOMON IBN

printer

Vicenzo Conti

Place

Cremona

Publication

1566

Description

FIRST EDITION

references

Vinograd, Cremona 45; Benayahu, Cremona 31; Mehlman 692

summary

The author was the acknowledged leader of Spanish Jewry. His teachers were the two Geronese cousins Jonah ben Abraham (“Rabbenu Yonah”) and Nachmanides. It was particularly Nachmanides' method that Rashb”a continued: a fusion of the French Tosafists and the early Spanish luminaries
ff. 72. Mispaginated (as in all copies) though complete, slight staining, opening four leaves inserted from another copy. Modern boards. Sm. 4to
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