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Beth Yisrael [commentary to Jacob ben Asher’s Tur - Yoreh De’ah]. Subdivided into two commentaries “Derishah” and “Perishah”.

Auction 95 · Lot 150

Beth Yisrael [commentary to Jacob ben Asher’s Tur - Yoreh De’ah]. Subdivided into two commentaries “Derishah” and “Perishah”.

Estimate
$1,500–$2,000
Hammer price
$1,600

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

author

FALK, YEHOSHUA KATZ.

printer

Tzvi ben Abraham Kalonymus Jaffe

Place

Lublin

Publication

1635

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within decorative typographical border and surrounding Biblical verses. Uncommon woodcut printer’s device depicting the zodiac sign “Deli” (Aquarius) on f. 4v. (See Yaari, Hebrew Printers’ Marks, p. 501 (appendices); Yudlov, Hebrew Printers’ Marks, pp. 55-7). Extensive marginalia on f. 185 (Hilchoth Ribis).

references

Vinograd, Lublin 182.

summary

A classic commentary later published in all standard edition of the Tur. The author (ca. 1555-1614) is also known in rabbinic circles as the Drishah after his Halachic works.
ff. 356. Foxed and browned. Later sheep-backed speckled boards. Folio.
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