Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $3,000

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author

MIZRACHI, ELIJAH.

printer

Solomon Ya’abetz

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1560

Description

FIRST EDITION

references

Vinograd, Const. 217 (records ff.158 complete); Mehlman 758; Yaari, Const. 161; Adams M-1516

summary

An attractive wide margined copy. Elijah Mizrachi (c.1450-1526) was one of the most outstanding Rabbinic authorities of the Ottoman Empire. His responsa are of great historic interest, written amidst the turbulence of the Spanish Inquisition and concern the Jewish exiles who migrated toTurkey. The cancelled leaves 109-10 (responsum 66) are extant in only two copies. They contain the author’s protestations and polemic with R. J. Algazi concerning his son’s alleged conversion to Islam

ff. 158 (160), lacking, as all copies, ff. 109-110 (bound in here in facsimile). Some staining, scattered marginalia in a cursive Sephardic script. Some words censored in responsum 56. Recent calf, slightly rubbed. Folio

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