(RaSHB”A). She’eiloth u-Teshuvoth [responsa]

IBN ADRET, SOLOMON.

The Company of Silk-Weavers

Bologna

1539

Third edition. Rashi script. Printed in double margins. Present with indices (missing from most copies), additional title. A wide-margined copy. On final page, censor’s inscriptiion, “Camillo Jaghel”

Vinograd, Bologna 14; Mehlman 693 (incomplete); Adams S-1407

R. Solomon ibn Adret was among the anti-Maimonideans who opposed the study of philosophy below the age of twenty-five. Be that as it may, the sheer quantity of Rashb”a’s legal responsa - in the thousands - is staggering, not to speak of their quality. The present collection contains 1255 such responsa to Jewish communities throughout Europe and North Africa. Of late Prof. Ch. Z. Dimitrovsky has published a critical edition of Rashba’s responsa, but only those of a philosophical (or anti-philosophical nature)