Arba’ah Turim ["Four Columns" - Code of Law]

Estimate: $5,000–$7,000
Hammer price: $4,000

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author

JACOB BEN ASHER.

printer

Joseph Ottolenghi

Place

Riva Di Trento

Publication

1560

Description

DELUXE COPY, PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER. Title within elaborate architectural arch. This copy with the two rare leaves containing calculations pertaining to the calendar inserted between ff. 53-54. Plus manuscript leaf in a clear Ashkenazi hand dated 1686 at the end of Yoreh Deah (f. 66b) with formula and explanations in the form of two hands used to calculate the various Tekufoth.

references

Vinograd, Riva di Trento 18.

summary

RARE, BIBLIOPHILIC EDITION. PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER. A fundamental Halachic treatise embracing all the laws and customs incumbent both on an individual and the community as a whole. The overriding authority of the Arba’ah Turim has been accepted by rabbinic scholars for centuries. See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Colored Paper no. 18.

ff. 6, 9-53, (2), 54-80, 1-66, 1-42, 1-104. Variously stained in places, outer margineof title trimmed and neatly repaired with small portion of border added in pen-and-ink. Bound in Valmadonna-custom chestnut calf decorated in blind and with gilt accents, spine titled in gilt. Folio.

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