Auction 53 · Lot 100

(ELIYASHAV, YOSEPH SHALOM)

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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printer

Caleoni-Bragadini

Place

Venice

Publication

1645

Description

TRANI, JOSEPH BEN MOSES. Shailoth U'Teshuvoth [responsa]. Part III. FIRST EDITION. On title, in pencil, Hebrew signature of former owner: "Elyashiv." ff.(1), 131, (2). Marginalia in old Sephardi cursive on ff. 28v and f. 112r. Misfoliated but complete. * BOUND WITH: TRANI, JOSEPH BEN MOSES. Chidushei Gemara [novellae to Talmudic Tractates Kiddushin, Shabbath and Kethuboth]. FIRST EDITION. ff. (1), 62-123, (2). Misfoliated but complete. Wanting novellae to Tractate Kiddushin, ff. 2-61 (found in previous lot)

references

Vinograd, Venice 1266 and 1262

summary

Rav Elyashiv's Copy of Shailoth U'Teshuvoth Maharit / Chidushei Maharit. Joseph ben Moses Trani ("Maharit") (1568-1639), a native of Safed, was at various times religious head of the Jewish comunities of Safed and Constantinople. Part I of the Responsa was printed in Constantinople in 1641. See EJ, Vol. XV, cols.1314-1315.

Title tape-repaired, waterstained, wrinkled and wormed, text very slightly affected. Modern booads. Sm. folio

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