Arba’ah Turim [Code of Jewish Law]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,000

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author

JACOB BEN ASHER.

printer

Eliezer ben Gershom Soncino

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1538-40

Description

Bound in two volumes. First word of each section in decorative vignette; ff. 51-54 and 56 with diagrams of Eruvin; ff. 58b-59a with calendar. Extensive marginal notes and corrections in various hands.

references

Vinograd, Const. 167; Mehlman 729.

summary

A fundamental Halachic treatise. The scholarly editor, R. Yechiel ben Reuben Aschkenazi, added to this edition marginal notes citing the Ri’f, Ro’sh and Ramba’m indicating sources not noted in earlier editions.

ff. 349 (of 357). Vol. I: ff. 174. Lacking ff. 1-2 and ff. 3-4 of sig. 2. * Vol. II: ff. 175. Lacking f. 2 of sig. 15, portion of table of contents of Even Ha’ezer. Ex-library, variously trimmed, worn and stained, crude taped repairs with loss, wormed. Recent calf. Folio.

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