Bidspirit auction | ISAAC BEN MEIR OF DÜREN.

ISAAC BEN MEIR OF DÜREN. Sha’arei Dura [Rabbinic Code]. Third edition. Title with manuscript description in Latin of the work’s contents. Formerly in the library of the London Beth Din. ff. 64. Trimmed and lightly stained. 19th-century institutional boards. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 495. Venice, Vittorio Eliano, 1564. R. Yitzhak of Duran (second half of the 13th century) was a preeminent German Halachic authority. His Sha’arei Dura is one of the most important Codes concerning laws of Kashruth and family purity. Based upon the traditions of both Germany and France, it became the ultimate source for Halachah in this area, quoted at length by all subsequent codifiers.