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

KOLON, YOSEPH. (MaHaRY’K).  Shailoth U’Teshuvoth [responsa].  FIRST EDITION.  THE R. YONATHAN EYBUSCHETZ COPY. With inscription on the title stating the volume belonged to… “HaMefursam BeDoro A[mud] H[ayemini], P[e’er] H[ador] K[evod] S[hem] T[ifartho] K[evod] M[oreinu] H[arav] Yehonathan Eybuschetz.” The left corner of the title has an inscription “Poh Metz.” Marginalia. ff. (10), 233. Some staining, marginal paper repair on verso of title, slight wormhole on title and first leaf, embossed stamp of previous owner on title and final leaf. Modern elaborately tooled calf. Lg. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 15; Stefansky, Sifrei Yesod 273. Venice, Daniel Bomberg, 1519. This important collection of responsa had a seminal influence upon the development of the Shulchan Aruch. 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. He was the teacher to R. Ovadiah Bartenuro.