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MEIR BEN BARUCH  (MaHaRa’M of Rothenburg).  Shailoth U’Teshuvoth [responsa]. FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. Including the Enactments of Rabbeinu Gershom. Title within historiated woodcut border incorporating printer’s device (Yaari, Printer’s Marks no. 37). The London Beth Din copy. ff. 2, 5-114. Leaves 3 and 4 were destroyed during printing and are missing in all copies. Foxed, trace wormed. Modern calf. Folio. Vinograd, Prague 161. Prague, Moses ben Bezalel Katz, 1608. First complete edition, containing 1,020 responsa, by this supreme arbiter of Halachic authority in Germany. Two responsa anthologies by Maharam of Rothenburg exist: Shu’t Mahara’m HaKetzaroth (abbreviated responsa) issued in 1557; and this expanded anthology, known as Shu’t Mahara’m Ha’Arukoth.