Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa]

Estimate: $2,000–$2,500
Hammer price: $5,000

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

author

MIZRACHI, ELIJAH.

printer

Solomon Ya’abetz

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1560

Description

FIRST EDITION. Previous owners marks.

references

Vinograd, Const. 217 (records ff. 158 complete); Mehlman 758; Yaari, Const. 161; Adams M-1516.

summary

An attractive wide margined copy. Elijah Mizrachi (c.1450-1526) was one of the most outstanding Rabbinic authorities of the Ottoman Empire. His responsa are of great historic interest, written amidst the turbulence of the Spanish Inquisition and concern those Jewish exiles who migrated to Turkey. The canceled leaves 109-10 (responsum 66) are extant in only two copies. They contain the author’s protestations and polemic with R. J. Algazi concerning his son’s alleged conversion to Islam.

ff. 158 (160), wanting, as per all copies, the canceled leaves 109 and 110. Minimal light staining, browned in places. Later mottled calf, rubbed. Folio.

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