Sepher Agur [Halachic Code]

LANDAU, JACOB.

Cornelio Adelkind for Marco Antonio Giustiniani

Venice

1546

THE copy of R. YITZCHAK BECHOR DAVID (AUTHOR OF DIVREI EMETH), with his signature on title-page.

Vinograd, Venice 261; Habermann, Adelkind 26.

The last rabbinic code written by a German scholar before the Shulchan Aruch was compiled, the Sepher Agur follows the order of the Tur and contains fourteen hundred and thirty nine sections, primarily focusing upon ritual, the laws of the Sabbath and the Festivals. The author’s intention was to add the decisions of the later German scholars, such as Jacob Moelin and Israel Isserlein which has been been omitted by Jacob ben Asher’s Tur. The previous owner R. Yizchak Bechor David ( 1690-1755) was one of the leading poskim of his generation. The Noda B’Yehudah held him in the greatest reverence using such munificent titles as “Gaon HaGaonim