She’erith Yoseph [on the methodology of the Talmud].

Estimate: $500–$600
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

JOSEPH IBN VERGA.

printer

Moses Elishama Zifroni for Tommaso Ruffinelli

Place

Mantua

Publication

1593

Description

Second edition.

references

Vinograd, Mantua 186.

summary

The author, who lived in Turkey, was the son of Solomon ibn Verga, author of the historical chronicle, Shevet Yehudah. On the title-page, the author boasts he assembled many Talmudic principles not included in the earlier works on Talmudic methodology, that is, Sepher Kerithoth by Samson of Chinon and Halichoth Olam by Isaiah Halevi.

ff. 44. Some staining, previous owners marks including bookpate of Jacob Klatzkin. Later calf, rubbed. Sm.4to.

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