Shulchan Aruch [Code of Jewish Law]. Four parts in one volume.

KARO, YOSEPH.

Giorgio di Cavalli

Venice

1567

Second edition. Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes, opening word of each section within decorative woodcut border-piece incorporating printers’ device (cf. Yaari no. 33).

Vinograd, Venice 553.

A digest of the expansive Beith Yoseph, the Shulchan Aruch (“Prepared Table”) so named by Karo to indicate that he had prepared the material in a manner ready to be consumed immediately. It has become the Rabbinic Code par excellence. Two editions were issued simultaneously: The present one at the House of Cavalli and another by Giovanni Griffio. For details regarding the first printings of the Shulchan Aruch, see: R. Margoliot, in Sinai, Vol. 37 (1955) pp. 25-35 and R. Y. Nissim in Sinai Sepher Yovel (1958) pp. 29-39.