Auction 79 THE VALMADONNA TRUST LIBRARY: FURTHER SELECTIONS FROM THE HISTORIC COLLECTION. * HEBREW PRINTING IN AMERICA. * GRAPHIC & CEREMONIAL ART
Nov 15, 2018
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LOT 97:

MEIR BEN BARUCH

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MEIR BEN BARUCH
(MaHaRa”M of Rothenburg). Shailoth U’Teshuvoth [responsa]
FIRST EDITION. Title within four-part historiated border. Wider margins. Signed by censors. Ownership signatures including Chizkiya b. Shlomo Anshel.
ff. 108, (15). Few leaves with slight marginal wear, stained in places, title with minute worming repaired on verso. Bound in Valmadonna-custom chestnut blind-tooled calf, titled in gilt on spine. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Cremona 15.
Cremona: Vicenzo Conti 1557
The first of several, differing collections of responsa by this supreme arbiter of Halachic authority in Germany. For an exhaustive treatment of the Mahara”m and his influence from the 13th-century and on, see I. A. Agus, Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (1947).

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