Levush Malchuth [elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch].

Estimate: $700–$900
Hammer price: $700

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author

JAFFE, MORDECHAI BEN ABRAHAM.

printer

Giovanni Calioni

Place

Venice

Publication

1620

Description

Third edition. Four parts in four volumes. Divisional title pages. Text illustrations. Marginalia in a Yemenite hand.

references

Vinograd, Venice 1122-25

summary

A Halachic work issued as a “midway between two extremes: the lengthy Beith Yoseph of Karo on the one hand, and the Shulchan Aruch with Isserles’ Mapah, which was too brief, on the other.” EJ, IX cols.1263-4.

* Vol. I:Orach Chaim: Levush Hatechleth Vehachur ff. 201, (2). * Vol. II: Yoreh De’ah: Levush Atereth Zahav ff. 148, (2). * Vol. III: Even Ha’ezer: Levush Butz Ve’argaman ff. 87. * Vol. IV: Choshen Mishpat: Levush Ir Shushan ff. 162, (2). Variously stained with marginal worming occasionally affecting text, papers repairs, corners rounded, few leaves supplied from another copy, Vol. IV, p. 46a with natural printers error. Modern boards. Folio.

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