Bidspirit auction | MIZRACHI, ELIYAHU. Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa].

MIZRACHI, ELIYAHU. Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa]. FIRST EDITION. Formerly in the Mehlman collection. An attractive wide margined copy. ff. 158 (of 160), wanting, as per all copies, the canceled leaves 109 and 110. Minimal light staining, browned in places. Later mottled calf, rubbed. Folio. Vinograd, Constantinople 217 (records ff. 158 complete); Mehlman 758; Stefansky, Sifrei Yesod 279. Constantinople, Solomon Ya’abetz, 1560. First edition of Shu’t HaRe’em. The author (c.1450-1526) was one of the most outstanding Rabbinic authorities of the Ottoman Empire. His responsa are of great historic interest, written amidst the turbulence of the Spanish Inquisition and concern those Jewish exiles who migrated to Turkey. The canceled leaves 109-10 (responsum 66) are extant in only two copies. They contain the author’s protestations and polemic with R. J. Algazi concerning his son’s alleged conversion to Islam.