(RaSHBa”TZ). Sepher HaTaSHBe”TZ [responsa]. Appended: “Chut HaMeshulash” [responsa by later Algerian authorities: Solomon Duran, Solomon Serour and Abraham ibn Tawah]

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

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

author

DURAN, SHIMON BEN TZEMACH.

printer

Naphtali Herz Levi Rofe

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1738-1741

Description

FIRST EDITION. Four parts in one volume. Title within engraved architectural border depicting the Biblical personages of Moses, Aaron, David and Solomon. Divisional title in ornamental woodcut featuring lions, foliage and crown. Two other divisonal titles in typographical borders. Bound in original colored “Fish-skin” binding with tooled floral decoration.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1490.

summary

Popular lore has suggested that in the merit of the author’s reverence for holy books, his own works were beautifully bound. See D.-G. Yardeni, “The ‘Tashbetz’ by R. Shimon b. Zemah Duran; Amsterdam 1739-1742,” in: Alei Sefer, No. 10 (June 1982) pp. 119-32.

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