Bidspirit auction | YITZCHAK BEN SHESHETH PERFET (RIVa’Sh). 

YITZCHAK BEN SHESHETH PERFET (RIVa’Sh).  Teshuvoth HaRav [responsa]. Three initial title letters within floral woodcut vignettes and gilt. ff. 415, (9). Lightly stained in places, few leaves with neat marginal repairs, previous owner’s marks, Modern calf. Thick 4to. Vinograd, Riva 13. Riva di Trento, n.p. 1559. R. Isaac bar Sheshet Perfet (1326-1408) was a Spanish luminary who fled Valencia in 1391 due to a wave of persecution and subsequently settled in Algiers. His responsa, one of the pillars upon which R. Yoseph Karo’s Shulchan Aruch later rested, are an invaluable source of historical information concerning the Jews of Spain and North Africa in the 14th century.