Bidspirit auction | KOLON, YOSEPH (MaHaRY”K).  Shailoth U’Teshuvoth

KOLON, YOSEPH (MaHaRY”K).  Shailoth U’Teshuvoth [responsa]. FIRST EDITION. Wide-margined copy. Throughout are marginal notes in an early, learned Sephardic hand (as yet unidentified). ff. (10), 233. Staining, marginal repairs, previous owners' marks. Modern calf. Lg. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 15. Venice, Daniel Bomberg, 1519. Rabbi of Mantua and later of Pavia, R. Yoseph Kolon (1420-80) was the foremost Talmudic scholar during the second half of the 15th-century whose Halachic opinion was sought across the European Continent.  This important collection of responsa had a seminal influence upon the development of the Shulchan Aruch.