Levush Malchuth [elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $800

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

author

JAFFE, MORDECHAI

printer

Giovanni Caleoni

Place

Venice

Publication

1620

Description

Four parts in two volumes. Divisional title pages. Part I: Orach Chaim: Levush Hatechleth Vehachur. ff. 201, (2). Opening two leaves crudely laid down. * Part II: Yoreh De’ah: Levush Atereth Zahav. ff. 148, (2). Final leaves unattractively repaired with loss. * Part III: Even Ha’ezer: Levush Butz Ve’argaman. ff. 87. * Part IV: Choshen Mishpat: Levush Ir Shushan. ff. 162, (2). Leaves 81-8 in a beautiful precise hand alongide the printed pages later inserted from a slightly shorter copy

references

Vinograd, Venice 1122-25

summary

Previous owners’ signatures and stamps on title include “Pinchos Menachem of Gur” (i.e. R. Pinchos of Piltz), Author of Sifthei Tzadik, along with the stamp of his son, Chanoch-Henach Gad Yustman, Rabbi of Wilohn. R. Pinchos’s maternal grandfather was Yitzchak Meir Alter, the Grand Rabbi of Gur - “The Chidushei Ha-Rim.” He later became the brother-in-law of R. Judah Aryeh Leib Alter of Gur - “The Sfath Emeth.”

Browned and dampstained. Later morocco, rubbed. Folio

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