Auction 86 - Part II - The Leo Rapaport Collection
Sefer HaTerumah – Venice, 1523 – First Edition – Wide Margins
Opening: $3,000
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000
Sold for: $7,500
Including buyer's premium
Sefer HaTerumah, halachic rulings on various topics, by R. Baruch son of R. Yitzchak of France. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1523. First edition.
Sefer HaTerumah is one of the prominent halachic works composed in the times of the Tosafists. It includes halachot on various topics: laws of shechitah, terefot, kashrut, challah, Niddah, divorce, Chalitzah, Avoda Zara, Yayin Nesech, Torah scrolls, tefillin, Shabbat. Following the laws of tefillin is a special chapter devoted to the laws of Eretz Israel.
The author, R. Baruch son of R. Yitzchak, was a Tosafist from France (named Baal HaTerumah after his book; sometimes erroneously referred to as R. Baruch of Worms), close disciple of R. Yitzchak son of R. Shmuel (R. Yitzchak the elder). He immigrated to Eretz Israel shortly before his passing.
The book opens with a comprehensive table of contents, containing a summary of the laws in the order of the chapters.
Handwritten inscription (in Italian script) on the title page, dating the composition of this work to 1236, based on a record in Sefer Yuchasin.
Several leaves (primarily laws of Avoda Zara and Yayin Nesech) with many censorship deletions (in several places, the deleted text was replaced in handwriting). Censor's signature on final leaf.
[140] leaves (final leaf blank). Approx. 27 cm. Wide margins. Good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Marginal open tears to several leaves, not affecting text. Minor tear to second leaf, repaired with paper. Non-original binding, loose, damaged.
Sefer HaTerumah is one of the prominent halachic works composed in the times of the Tosafists. It includes halachot on various topics: laws of shechitah, terefot, kashrut, challah, Niddah, divorce, Chalitzah, Avoda Zara, Yayin Nesech, Torah scrolls, tefillin, Shabbat. Following the laws of tefillin is a special chapter devoted to the laws of Eretz Israel.
The author, R. Baruch son of R. Yitzchak, was a Tosafist from France (named Baal HaTerumah after his book; sometimes erroneously referred to as R. Baruch of Worms), close disciple of R. Yitzchak son of R. Shmuel (R. Yitzchak the elder). He immigrated to Eretz Israel shortly before his passing.
The book opens with a comprehensive table of contents, containing a summary of the laws in the order of the chapters.
Handwritten inscription (in Italian script) on the title page, dating the composition of this work to 1236, based on a record in Sefer Yuchasin.
Several leaves (primarily laws of Avoda Zara and Yayin Nesech) with many censorship deletions (in several places, the deleted text was replaced in handwriting). Censor's signature on final leaf.
[140] leaves (final leaf blank). Approx. 27 cm. Wide margins. Good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Marginal open tears to several leaves, not affecting text. Minor tear to second leaf, repaired with paper. Non-original binding, loose, damaged.
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