Sefer Levush HaButz V’HaArgaman.
First Edition, Cracow 1599. At the press of Yitzchak son of Aaron Prostitz.
This First Edition is Exceedingly Rare! Apparently a complete copy has never been offered at public auction.
126 Leaves. 28.7 Cm
Rabbi Mordechai Jaffe (c.1535-1612), a native of Prague, studied in his youth in Poland under the greatest scholars of the day, R. Solomon Luria (Maharsha”l) and R. Moses Isserles (Ram”a). In subsequent years, he would sojourn in Italy and once again in Poland, before finally returning to his native Prague in 1592, at which time he succeeded the famed R. Judah Löw (Mahara”l) as Av Beth Din.
The Levush remains to this day one of the mainstays of the Halacha – especially the Aschkenazic tradition.
Overall Fair-Bad condition, some stains and water stains, many pages have marginal restorations some affecting text, minor marginal worming on last few pages, page 18 loose, title page has marginal tears and repairs, first few pages partially detached from text block, original vellum binding slightly rubbed at edges.
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