Auction 10 Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Jun 24, 2010 (Your local time)
Israel
 8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 341:

Tur Choshen Mishpat – Venice, 1567 – Many Glosses from Printing Period

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Tur Choshen Mishpat, with commentaries and novellae by Rabbi Yossef Karo. Venice, 1567. Second edition of "Beit Yossef", printed during his lifetime.
Many scholarly glosses (more than one hundred) in oriental handwritings, mostly written in the 1500's. Some comments by a writer of the 1600's and comments by other writers. First glosser refers to author of "Beit Yossef" as "Mahario Karo" or mentions the "Rabbi the Writer", a typical style of writing close to autor's lifetime. The other glosser quotes from the "Knesset Ha-Gedola" printed in 1734. Some comments were erased by the writers, most of them chopped.
On page 148 signature of Rabbi "Moshe Angil".
[Title and 2 leaves missing], 4-40, 43-125 [leaves 125-192 missing]. 31.5cm. Fair condition, stains and slight moth damages. Colored leaves-cutting.