Sepher Agur [Halachic Code].

LANDAU, YA’AKOV.

Cornelio Adelkind for Marco Antonio Giustiniani

Venice

1546

Third edition. Printer’s device on title-page. With the rare final four leaves (Sepher Chazon) usually lacking from all other copies. Title page with signatures and inscriptions, one of which is dated 1595.

Vinograd, Venice 261.

The last rabbinic code written by a German scholar before the Shulchan Aruch was compiled, the Sepher Agur follows the order of the Tur and contains fourteen hundred and thirty nine sections, primarily focusing upon ritual, the laws of the Sabbath and the Festivals. The author’s intention was to add the decisions of the later German scholars, such as the Mahari’l and R. Yisrael Isserlein, which has been been omitted by R. Ya’akov ben Asher’s Tur.