(Arba’ah Turim). Even Ha’ezer [Rabbinic Code]

JACOB BEN ASHER.

Tobias Foa

Sabbioneta

1553

FIRST EDITION WITH COMMENTARY BY JOSEPH KARO. Each letter of title within a decorative woodcut vignette. Opening word of main text within elaborate floral woodcut border piece. Printer’s mark on verso of final leaf (Yaari no. 20). Previous owners’ signatures and inscription on title in various Italian hands, scholarly note on front flyleaf, censor’s signature on final leaf, some words censored in places (e. g. concerning relations with a Gentile woman), scattered scholarly marginalia in an Italian hand. A wide-margined copy.

Vinograd, Sabbioneta 7; Mehlman 732; Habermann, Adelkind 114; Yaari, Mechkarei Sepher, pp. 354-55, no. 5.

According to Sonne (cited also by Yaari and Habermann), there are two variants of this edition; one on which f. 74 contains 57 lines on both the recto and verso (as in this copy and the Mehlman copy) and another issue wherein the recto contains 59 lines and the verso 53 lines within a differing layout. See Kiryath Sepher Vol. VII (1930), p. 484.