Auction 77 - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial

Rav Mordechai – Riva di Trento, 1558

Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Rav Mordechai, Talmudic novellae, by R. Mordechai HaKohen Ashkenazi. Riva di Trento: [Antonio Bruin], 1558.
Without the final 45 leaves of the Simanei Mordechai section, printed at the end of the book with a separate title page.
Ownership inscription in Italian script at the top of the title page: "Acquired by R. Refael Mode---[?]". Another inscription in Oriental script: "Chaim Shlomo Franco" (a Sephardic Torah scholar and dayan in Safed, ca. 1835-1842).
150; [1], 154-192 leaves. Without final 45 leaves. 32 cm. Fair condition. Stains (including large dampstains) and wear. Traces of past dampness, with mold stains to upper part of many leaves. Small marginal tears to title page and first leaves, repaired in part. Worming, affecting text on several leaves. Censor's deletions on several leaves and censorship inscription on final page. New binding.
Early Printed Books – 16th-17th Centuries
Early Printed Books – 16th-17th Centuries