Shailoth U’Teshuvoth [responsa].

Estimate: $2,000–$2,500
Hammer price: $2,000

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author

MINTZ, MOSHE BEN YITZCHAK.

printer

Isaac Prostitz

Place

Cracow

Publication

1617

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within decorative woodcut border with floral and bird motifs.

references

Vinograd, Cracow 330.

summary

R. Moshe Mintz was one of the greatest German Halachic scholars of the 15th-century. As Rabbi in Wuerzburg, Bamberg, Nuremberg and Posen, he featured prominently in communal life in Germany and beyond - especially Italy, where his cousin, R. Isaac Mintz, served as Rabbi of Padua. His responsa are important for the delineation of Ashkenazi custom, including the Takanoth of Rabbenu Gershom and Takanoth ShU”M (Speyer, Worms and Mainz). See EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 65-66.

ff. 156, (12). Lightly browned and stained, institutional stamps on title and last leaf, several leaves laid to size, expert repair on f.114. Modern blind-tooled calf. Sm. 4to.

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