Bidspirit auction | MOELLIN, JACOB. Sha’iloth U’Teshuvoth Mahari”l


MOELLIN, JACOB. Sha’iloth U’Teshuvoth Mahari”l [responsa]. Title surrounded by four-piece vignettes border. ff. (8), 79. Misbound but complete. Previous owners’ marks, light waterstains, trace wormed. Modern vellum. 8vo. Vinograd, Cremona 4; Benayahu, Cremona 3. Cremona: Vicenzo Conti 1556 The Mahari”l (c.1360-1427) was the leading rabbi of his generation and founder of a Yeshiva in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Deeply respected for his mastery of Halakha, his rabbinic rulings are considered foundational for the customs of Ashkenazic Jewry. The Mahari”l (c.1360-1427) was the leading rabbi of his generation and founder of a Yeshiva in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Deeply respected for his mastery of Halakha, his rabbinic rulings are considered foundational for the customs of Ashkenazic Jewry.