Teshuvoth ha-RaDa”Ch [responsa]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $2,200

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author

HAKOHEN, DAVID, OF CORFU

printer

Eliezer ben Gershom Soncino

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1537

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within Soncino’s striking woodcut historiated border. Wide margins

references

Vinograd, Const. 160; Yaari, Const. 125; Mehlman 703

summary

David ben Chaim Hakohen (beg. 15th century) was rabbi at Corfu and later, Patras, Greece. He was a disciple of the great halachist R. Judah Mintz (MaHaR”I Mintz). The title page of these responsa tells of the miraculous rescue of the manuscript from fire in the home of the author’s son R. Chaim Cohen in Adrianople (Edirne), Turkey. There is a typographical curiosity on ff.183v.-184r: Unlike the rest of the book, the text is double-spaced rather than single-spaced

ff. 216 (of 224) lacking signature 20. Title remargined, stained in places. Contemporary vellum, worn and rebacked. 4to

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