(MaHaRa”M of Rothenburg). Shailoth U’Teshuvoth [responsa]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,100

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author

MEIR BEN BARUCH

printer

Vicenzo Conti

Place

Cremona

Publication

1557

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within four-part historiated border. Wider margins. Signed by censors. Ownership signatures including Chizkiya b. Shlomo Anshel.

references

Vinograd, Cremona 15.

summary

The first of several, differing collections of responsa by this supreme arbiter of Halachic authority in Germany. For an exhaustive treatment of the Mahara”m and his influence from the 13th-century and on, see I. A. Agus, Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (1947).

ff. 108, (15). Few leaves with slight marginal wear, stained in places, title with minute worming repaired on verso. Bound in Valmadonna-custom chestnut blind-tooled calf, titled in gilt on spine. Sm. 4to.

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