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LOT 12:
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ALEXANDER SUESSLIN HAKOHEN OF FRANKFURT.
Sepher Ha’Agudah [Halachic compendium arranged in order of the tractates of the Talmud].
FIRST EDITION.
Title within elaborate architectural arch. Letters of initial words set within vignettes. Printed in double columns. A wider-margined copy.
ff. 4, 250. Lightly browned and stained, title remargined. Later tree-calf, with morocco gilt spine label. Folio.
Vinograd, Cracow 32.
Cracow, Isaac Prostitz, 1571.
First edition of a fundamental work of Halacha, and of particular importance to Ashkenazi custom.
The Sepher Ha’Agudah is a widely-popular, authoritative Code, cited extensively by R. Ya’akov HaLevi Moellin (Mahari’l) and R. Moshe Isserles (Ram’a). It was published from a manuscript with corrections supplied by R. Yoseph HaKohen (author of responsa She’erith Yoseph and brother-in-law of the Ram’a).
The author of Sepher Ha’Agudah (d. 1348), was a disciple of R. Isaac of Dueren and served as rabbi in Cologne, Worms and Frankfurt. See EJ, Vol. II, cols. 585-6.
