Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa].

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

MIZRACHI, ELIYAHU.

printer

Solomon ben Isaac Ya’abetz

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1560

Description

FIRST EDITION. Wide-Margined Copy. Previous owner’s stamps including R. Chaim Berlin and R. Elia Yehuda Alter of Biala.

references

Vinograd, Const. 217.

summary

R. Elijah Mizrachi’s responsa, written amidst the turbulence of the Spanish Inquisition, are of great historic interest as they concern the Jewish exiles who found sanctuary in Constantinople. The canceled leaves 109-10 (responsum 66) are extant in only two copies worldwide. They contain the author’s protestations concerning his son’s alleged conversion to Islam.

ff. 158. Wanting, as all copies, the canceled leaves 109 and 110 (see below). Stained in places, title remargined, last leaf and f.2 with taped repairs. Modern calf. Folio.

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