Parach Mateh Aharon [responsa]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $400

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

PERACHYAH, AARON HAKOHEN

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Moses Mendes Coutinho

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1703

Description

FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one volume. Two titles within historiated woodcut architectural borders flanked by Moses and Aaron with vignettes depicting the Ark of the Covernant and Moses bearing the Decalogue. Spanish dedication page

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 760; Fuks, Amsterdam 576

summary

An important halachic decisor among his native Salonikan rabbis, the responsa of Aaron Perachyah (1627?-1697), reflect the condition of Turkish Jewry in general, and of Salonika in particular, in the 17th century. See EJ, Vol. XIII, col. 271

ff. (3), 249; (1), 168. First title repaired, few waterstains. Modern boards. Folio

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