Bidspirit auction | ALFASI, YITZCHAK. (RI'F). Rav Alfas

ALFASI, YITZCHAK. (RI'F). Rav Alfas [Rabbinic code]. Fifth edition. With commentaries of Rashi, R. Nissim Gerondi and R. Jonah Gerondi. Edited by Joseph Ottolenghi. Three parts in three volumes (not uniform). Various signatures, extensive Rabbinic marginalia in old hand. *   Vol. I: ff. 268. *   Vol. II: ff. 48; 853-872 (bound out of sequence; in Vinograd's collation ff. 289-308), 49-219, 784-852 [i.e. 288] (our foliation differs slightly from Vinograd's collation ff. 212, 777-852). * Vol. III: ff. 302, (8). Variously stained and soiled in places, paper repairs, trimmed. Modern calf-backed boards. Folio. Vinograd, Riva di Trento 1. Riva di Trento, Anthony Bruin and Jacob Marcaria, 1558. The first Hebrew book printed in Riva di Trento. The RI'F is the most significant Halachic compendium prior to the Yad HaChazakah of Maimonides. R. Yoseph Karo regarded R. Alfasi’s scholarship with the utmost respect and determined the laws in his Shulchan Aruch upon his authority.