Auction 57 · Lot 141

Pachad Yitzchak [Halachic encyclopedia]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

LAMPRONTI, ISAAC.

Place

Venice, Livorno & Reggio

Publication

1750-99

Description

FIRST EDITION . Six parts bound in five volumes (“Aleph-Mem”). Fold-out charts. Previous owners’ signatures and stamps including R. Chaim Lerman of Krashnewitz and R. Avraham Abeli Katzenellenbogen.

references

Vinograd, Venice 1870, 1888, 2103, 2114, Reggio 22 & Livorno 456.

summary

Pachad Yitzchak is the most comprehensive and celebrated encyclopedia in the field of Halachah. Each entry includes material from the Mishnah, Talmud, Poskim, Rishonim and responsa literature. Lampronti pays special attention to the decisions of the Italian Rabbis, much of which had never been published to date and was otherwise unknown. The previous owner R. Chaim Lerman of Krashnewitz (1867-1911), was a well known Chassidic Rabbi, author and bibliographer. See Y. Alfasi, HaChassiduth p. 210. His forebearers were disciples of the Chozeh of Lublin and R. Mendel of Kotzk.

Variously worn. Few leaves in the Reggio volume (letter Kaf) supplied in manuscript. Variously bound. Folio. Sold not subject to return.

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