Sepher Ha’Agudah [Halachic compendium arranged in order of the tractates of the Talmud].

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

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author

ALEXANDER SUESSLIN HAKOHEN OF FRANKFURT

printer

Isaac Prostitz

Place

Cracow

Publication

1571

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within elaborate architectural arch. Letters of initial words set within vignettes. Printed in double columns. A wide-margined copy.

references

Vinograd, Cracow 32.

summary

The Sepher Ha’Agudah is a widely-popular, authoritative Code, cited extensively by R. Jacob HaLevi Moellin (Mahari”l) and R. Moses Isserles (Ram”a). It was published from a manuscript with corrections supplied by Joseph HaKohen (author of responsa She’erith Yoseph and brother-in-law of the Ram”a). The author of Sepher Ha’Agudah (d. 1348), was a disciple of R. Isaac of Dueren and served as rabbi in Cologne, Worms and Frankfurt. See EJ, Vol. II, cols. 585-6.

ff. 4, 250. Touch browned in few places, final leaf with neat paper repairs. Bound in Valmadonna-custom maroon blind-tooled calf, spine in compartments and titled in gilt. Folio.

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