Bidspirit auction | TZAHALON, YOM-TOV. (Mahari’tz).  Shailoth U’Teshuvoth

TZAHALON, YOM-TOV. (Mahari’tz).  Shailoth U’Teshuvoth [responsa]. FIRST EDITION. Title page within typographic border surrounding depiction of the Tabernacle, verso with diagrams of the Third Temple (based on the prophet Yechezkel), Table with Showbread, and Menorah, on f. 4v positioning of the Temple on Mount Zion. Introduction by the Author’s grandson. *  On front blank, signature of R. Nachum Dovber Friedman of Sadigora, scion of distinguished Chassidic dynasty of Rizhin) in purple ink. With his stamp “N.B. Friedman” and handwritten words “Minchath Shai” on title. ff. (9), 223, 25. Mispaginated but complete. Slight tears on ff. 24, 25 of final section repaired with tape, trace stained. Modern boards. Folio. Vinograd, Venice, 1467. Venice, Vendramin, 1694. A disciple of R. Yoseph Karo, R. Yom Tov Tzahalon (1559-c.1638) was the emissary from Tzfath to Italy and Holland, and later to Egypt and Turkey.