Bidspirit auction | BARUCH BEN YITZCHAK OF WORMS.

BARUCH BEN YITZCHAK OF WORMS. Sepher HaTerumah. FIRST EDITION. ff. 140. Trace wormed in places, otherwise  a fine copy.  Modern maroon morocco. Sm. folio. This copy formerly in The Library of the Valmadonna Trust. Vinograd, Venice 91. Venice, Daniel Bomberg, 1523. A Rabbinic Code ordered by Talmudic tractate, the Sepher HaTerumah has a particular focus upon the laws pertaining to Eretz Israel. The work has been included in much subsequent Halachic literature, among those who invoke its authority are R. Yitzchak b. Moshe (Or Zaru’a), R. Moshe of Coucy (SeMa’G), R. Zedekiah Anav (Shibolei HaLeket) and R. Aharon of Lunel (Orchoth Chaim). The Author, Baruch ben Isaac of Worms (late 12th-early 13th century) was a member of the Tosafist school that thrived in France, having studied under R. Isaac of Dampierre. For this reason, relatively few German authorities are cited by him in his Sepher HaTerumah, while citations of the master Tosafists RaSHBa”M and Rabbeinu Tam abound.