(Arba'ah Turim) Choshen Mishpat [Rabbinic Code: Laws of finance]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $750

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

author

JACOB BEN ASHER

printer

Giovanni Bragadini for Giovanni di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1594

Description

Printer’s device on title. Final leaf with woodcut of Venus clutching a spear pointed toward a seven-headed dragon (Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 35). On front fly, Latin stamp of "M. Rogozin, Brest-Litovsk; on f. 3r. Cyrillic stamp of M.Rogozhin, Warsaw; on f.421v. Hebrew signature of former owner: Avraham b. hrri"tz Schor MeLvov." Replete with learned rabbinic marginalia

references

Vinograd, Venice 800; Habermann, di Gara 147; Adams J-23

summary

Yaari apparently did not see the rare final leaf present in this copy, as he states it appeared only in the Mishneh Torah published by Bragadin in 1574: “It does not appear in any other book published by Bragadin.” See Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks, p. 136

ff. 421, 27 (bound out of sequence, ff.1-6 between ff.12-13), (1). Wanting blank following f. 421, preceding indices (see collation in Adams). Title silked and wanting first two letters of word "bi-zero'a" (asher bi-zero'a iyuno kibetz kol ha-de'oth), variously stained, few marginal repairs, final colophon leaf present though impugnable. Modern boards. Folio

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