Bidspirit auction | KARO, YOSEPH. Shulchan Aruch [“Prepared

KARO, YOSEPH. Shulchan Aruch [“Prepared Table”: Code of Jewish Law]. Even Ha’ezer [family law]. Volume III (of 4).  FIRST EDITION. Complete  in ff. 79, plus final blank. Title page bearing three-crowned printers device of Bragadin. Dampstained in places, small blank portion of title-page upper corner removed with paper repair on verso, small area of marginal worming on opening few leaves. Later vellum-backed patterned boards, split, needs rebinding. Sm. folio. Vinograd, Venice 509. Venice, Bragadin & Parenzo, (1565-68).    THE EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE SHULCHAN ARUCH. Compiled by Rabbi Yoseph Caro (1488-1575), the Shulchan Aruch is the magnum opus of Jewish law and remains the undisputed legal code of conduct to Jewish religious practice to this day.  The publishers here praise R. Yoseph Karo on the title-page: “Whose light is presently shining in Safed, [and whose] scholarship…is pure.” See also next Lot.