Auction 62
Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Aug 28, 2018
(Your local time)
Israel
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
The auction has ended
LOT 34:
Responsa of the Rosh – Venice, 1552 / Responsa of the Radvaz – Livorno, 1652 – Signatures of Rabbi Eliyahu Lumbroso
more...
|
|
![]() |
Sold for: $600
Start price:
$
300
Auction house commission:
23%
VAT: On commission only
|
Two books bound together:
Responsa of the Rosh. Venice: Alvise Bragadin, 1552.
Bound first: Responsa of the Radvaz - R. David ben Zimra. Livorno, [1652]. First edition.
The title page of Responsa of the Rosh contains a signed ownership inscriptions of Eliyahu Lumbroso and Yosef son of R. Yaakov ibn Amram. The price of the book: "Half a groschen", appears at the top of the title page.
The title page of Responsa of the Radvaz contains another ownership inscription of Eliyahu Lumbroso.
Additional signatures of R. Eliyahu Lumbroso appear on p. 1a of Responsa of the Radvaz and on p. 14a of Responsa of the Rosh.
R. Eliyahu Lumbroso was a Tunisian scholar around the beginning of the 19th century. He is known as the copyist of several manuscripts. See: Malchei Tarshish, p. 207.
Stamps of: "Yitzchak Isaac Stern dayan and posek of… [Miskolc]".
Two books bound together. Responsa of the Radvaz: [6], 100 leaves (leaf [3] bound before leaf [4]). Responsa of the Rosh: 158 leaves. 29 cm. Condition varies, good-fair. Stains, dampstains. Tears to several leaves. Worming, affecting text in some places. Title page of Responsa of the Radvaz torn and lacking, repaired. Old binding, damaged.

