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(RaSHB”A). Torath HaBayith HaKatzar [compendium of the author’s lengthier legal manual]

Auction 83 · Lot 30

(RaSHB”A). Torath HaBayith HaKatzar [compendium of the author’s lengthier legal manual]

Estimate
$1,000–$1,500
Hammer price
Not recorded

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

author

ADRET, SOLOMON IBN

printer

Vicenzo Conti

Place

Cremona

Publication

1566

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within historiated woodcut architectural arch. Marginalia.

references

Vinograd, Cremona 45; Mehlman 692.

summary

The author was the broadly acknowledged leader of Spanish Jewry. His teachers were the two Geronese cousins Jonah ben Abraham (“Rabbenu Yonah”) and Nachmanides. It was particularly Nachmanides' method that Rashb”a continued: a fusion of the French Tosafists and the early Spanish luminaries.

ff. 72. Trimmed, stained in places. Modern calf. Sm. 4to.

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