(RYBa”SH). Teshuvoth Harav [responsa]

ISAAC B”R SHESHETH PERFET.

n.p.

Riva di Trento

1559

Second Edition. Three initial title letters within floral woodcut vignettes and gilt. Few marginal notes.

Vinograd, Riva 13

R. Isaac bar Sheshet Perfet (1326-1408) was a Spanish luminary who fled Valencia in 1391 due to a wave of persecution and settled in Algiers. His responsa, one of the pillars upon which Joseph Karo’s Shulchan Aruch later rested, are an invaluable source of historical information concerning the Jews of Spain and North Africa in the 14th century. See EJ, Vol. IX, cols. 32-3.