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ASHER BEN YECHIEL > Shailoth U'Teshuvoth [responsa]. - Amended edition. Title within historiated woodcut architectural form border. ff. 180, 2, (16). Lightly stained, title repaired, several leaves remargined. Modern calf. Folio. Vinograd, Venice 1034. Venice, Zanetti, 1607 The responsa are divided into one hundred and eight thematic groups and provide a most vivid picture of the conditions of Jewish life in 14th-century Spain. See M. Waxman, History of Jewish Literature (1933) Vol. II, pp. 167-169; EJ, Vol. III, cols. 706-08.