Mishpetei Shmuel [responsa]

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $450

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

author

KELAI, SAMUEL

printer

Daniel Zanetti

Place

Venice

Publication

1599

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within oval cartouche framed by a decorative woodcut floral border. Printers’ device on verso of final leaf (Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 49). On title, Hebrew and Italian signatures of an unidentified member of the Lumbroso Family (see below). On f.2r. old Hebrew marginalium in Spanish cursive script pertaining to a formal agreement between husband and wife

references

Vinograd, Venice 879

summary

Lumbroso was an Italian-Tunisian family of Castilian origin. Over the centuries, they occupied positions of leadership within the Italian Jewish community of Tunis, distinguishing themseves as rabbis, dayanim, court physicians, government ministers and diplomats. See EJ, Vol. XI, cols. 561-63

ff. 181,(2). Mispaginated but complete. Tear to f. 33 (i.e. f. 29), title laid down with loss to border, ff. 2-4, 181 remargined, stained, some worming. Modern half-calf. Folio

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