Auction 48 · Lot 212

(RaShB”A). She'eloth u-Teshuvoth [responsa]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,000

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author

SOLOMON IBN ADRET.

printer

The Company of Silk-Weavers

Place

Bologna

Publication

1539

Description

Second edition. Present with indices (missing from many copies). Additional title. A wide-margined copy.

references

Vinograd, Bologna 14; Mehlman 693 (incomplete)

summary

The author was the foremost Spanish rabbi of the late 13th- early 14th-centuries whose works loom large on the horizon of Halacha. As a respondent, the RaShB”A answers inquiries directly, without unnecessarily lengthy scholastic discussion. The number of his responsa reaches well over three thousand, with inquiries addressed from all parts of the Jewish world, and touching upon all phases of law - religious, family and civil, as well as theological concerns. See M. Waxman, History of Jewish Literature (1933), Vol. II, pp.165-67.

ff. (16), 216. On title, crude tape repairs and institutional stamps. Browned and stained in places. Last leaves wormed with minor loss of text. Modern blind-tooled calf. Folio

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