Selections from The Valmadonna Trust Library: Highly Important Hebrew Printed Books
Nov 10, 2017
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LOT 69:
DURAN, SHIMON BEN TZEMACH.
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Sold for: $600
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Sepher HaTaSHBe”TZ [responsa]. Appended: “Chut HaMeshulash” [responsa by later Algerian authorities: Solomon Duran, Solomon Serour and Abraham ibn Tawah]
FIRST EDITION. Four parts in one volume. Opening title within ornamental woodcut featuring lions, foliage and crown. Divisional titles. ff. (12), 91; (1), 69, (1); 68, (1); (1), 36, (2), 39-83, (1), 85-101, (1). Ex-library, lightly browned. Modern half-calf over marbled boards. Folio. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1490.
Naphtali Herz Levi Rophé, Amsterdam: 1738.
In 1391, R. Shimon b. Zemach (1361-1444) fled his native Spain (Isle of Majorca) for Algiers, where he became one of the foremost halachic decisors of North African Jewry.
