Arba’ah Turim [Code of Jewish Law]

Estimate: $50,000–$70,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

JACOB BEN ASHER.

printer

Eliezer ben Gershom Soncino

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1538-40

Description

Title within attractive four-part ornamental border. Initials floriated. ff. 52-55, 57 with diagrams of Eruvin; ff. 60r.-61v. with calendar. On final page, signature of censor, “Camillo Jaghel 1629”

references

Vinograd, Const. 167; Yaari, Const. 130; Mehlman 729; Steinschneider 5500-6 (“Ed quoque rara”)

summary

Jacob ben Asher’s Tur. A Rare and Important Edition. The editor, R. Shlomo Mazal Tov, states in the introduction “the demand for the this wonderful work is so great that all previous editions have been dispersed as quickly as the flight of a flock of frightened sheep.” The scholarly proof-reader, R. Yechiel ben Reuben Ashkenazi, added marginal notes (“Mareh mekomth Ve-tziunim”) indicating certain sources not noted in earlier editions

ff. (357). (The pagination provided in pencil is erroneous, counting only to f. 354, it skips a leaf between ff.21-22; bet. ff. 77-78; and bet. ff. 286-287. Our collation accords with that of Yaari). Title and many leaves laid to size. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum over wooden boards, vellum and metallic hasps, spine in compartments, wormed. Thick folio

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