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JACOB BEN ASHER - Arba’ah Turim [Rabbinic Code of Law]. Fragment of two leaves only (of 408). Two-thirds of second leaf present, both leaves laid to size. Loose in modern folder. Folio. Vinograd, Const. 1; Yaari, Const. 1; Goff Heb-49; (5 copies of which 3 are imperfect); Offenberg 63; Steinschneider p. 1182, no. 5500.3; Thes. C-1; Mehlman, Genuzot Sepharim, p. 104. David and Samuel ibn Nachmias, Constantinople: 1493. THE TUR WAS THE FIRST BOOK TO BE PRINTED IN ANY LANGUAGE IN SOUTH-EAST EUROPE AND THE NEAR EAST. IT WAS THE ONLY HEBREW INCUNABLE TO BE PRINTED IN CONSTANTINOPLE.