(RaSHB”A). Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]

SOLOMON IBN ADRET.

The Company of Silk-Weavers

Bologna

1539

Second edition. Present with indices (missing from many copies). Initial word within decorated woodcut cartouche.

Vinograd, Bologna 14; Mehlman 693 (incomplete).

The author was the foremost Spanish rabbi of the late 13th- early 14th-centuries whose works loom large on the horizon of Halacha. As a respondent, the RaShB”A answers inquiries directly, without unnecessarily lengthy scholastic discussion. The number of his responsa reaches well over three thousand, with inquiries addressed from all parts of the Jewish world, and touching upon all phases of law - religious, family and civil, as well as theological concerns. See M. Waxman, History of Jewish Literature (1933) Vol. II, pp. 165-67.