Sepher Ha’agudah [Halachic compendium based upon Talmudic decisions]

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

ALEXANDER SUESSLIN HAKOHEN OF FRANKFURT.

printer

Isaac Prostitz

Place

Cracow

Publication

1571

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within elaborate architectural arch

references

Vinograd, Cracow 32; not in Adams

summary

Published from a manuscript with corrections supplied by Joseph Hakohen (brother-in-law of Moses Isserles), author of responsa She’eirith Yoseph. The author (d. 1348), was a disciple of R. Isaac of Duren and served as a Rabbi in Cologne, Worms and Frankfurt. The Sepher Ha’agudah, a popular, authoritative code is cited extensively by R. Yaakov Weil, the Mahri”l and R. Moses Isserles.

ff. 4, 250. Some staining, upper portion of title repaired, previous owner’s signature. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with various historiated panels; later clasps, rebacked. Folio

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