Mateh Moshe [novellae to Shulchan Aruch].

Estimate

$10,000–$12,000

Hammer price

$8,500

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

author

MOSHE OF PREMESHYL.

printer

Isaac Prostitz

Place

Cracow

Publication

1591

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within historiated woodcut border.

references

Vinograd, Cracow 140.

summary

Rare first edition of this important commentary to Orach Chaim. The work provides reasons for the laws, supplying a broad collection of relevant rabbinic opinions. Additionally, customs of the author’s teacher, R. Solomon Luria are recorded, with particular emphasis on the approaches taken by Polish Jewry. Mateh Moshe was an immensely popular work and is cited countless times in later Halachic texts, such as Magen Avraham and Mishnah Berurah. The author, R. Moshe ben Avraham of Przemyśl (c. 1550-1606), was rabbi in Belz, Przemysl and Opatow.

ff. 213 (mispaginated). Title and few additional leaves with neat marginal repairs, stained in places. Modern calf. thick 4to.

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