Auction 86 Part 2 The Leo Rapaport Collection
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Tur with Beit Yosef – Three Parts – First Editions of Beit Yosef, Printed in the Lifetime of the Author Rabbi Yosef ...

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Tur with Beit Yosef – Three Parts – First Editions of Beit Yosef, Printed in the Lifetime of the Author Rabbi Yosef Karo – Yoreh De'ah – Venice, 1551 / Even HaEzer – Sabbioneta, 1553 – Choshen Mishpat – Sabbioneta, 1559 – Glosses of R. Avraham Yosef Shlomo Graziano
Three parts of Tur with Beit Yosef – Yoreh De'ah, Even HaEzer and Choshen Mishpat, first editions of Beit Yosef, printed in the lifetime of the author R. Yosef Karo:
• Tur Yoreh De'ah, with Beit Yosef. Venice: Alvise Bragadin, 1551.
Prefaces by R. Yosef Karo and R. Yaakov ben Asher at the beginning of the book, and detailed tables of contents for the laws in the Tur and in Beit Yosef.
Copy of R. Avraham Yosef Shlomo Graziano, a Jewish-Italian scholar and maskil from the 17th century, prominent collector of books and manuscripts. With his signatures and glosses.
Signatures on title page and final leaf: "Ish Ger" (acronym of R. Avraham Yosef Shlomo Graziano). Inscription in his handwriting on the title page, attesting that he acquired the set of Beit Yosef from the heirs of R. Shlomo Berechia of Modena. Glosses in Italian script, including glosses handwritten by Graziano (some of the glosses are trimmed).
[30], 398 leaves. 33 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains (significant dampstains to several leaves). Extensive worming to title page and other leaves, affecting text, repaired in part with tape (including tape repairs to title page). Many censorship expurgations, some words deleted with ink and some scraped off (partly replaced in handwriting). Censorship authorization (in Italian) on final leaf, including inscription in Hebrew: "the derogatory words about pagans do not refer to Christians…" (this inscription was presumably written by an apostate censor; see: Benayahu, Haskama VeReshut BiDfusei Venitzia, p. 192). Old binding, with leather spine (extensive worming and damage to binding and spine).
•  Tur Even HaEzer, with Beit Yosef. Sabbioneta: Tobias Foa, 1553.
Preface by R. Yosef Karo at the beginning of the book, and detailed tables of contents for the laws in the Tur and in Beit Yosef.
Colophon on p. 232b: "The third Tur was completed… Friday, 4th Tammuz 1553, by… Cornelio Adelkind… in the press of R. Tobias Foa…".
232 leaves. 33.5 cm. Overall good condition. Stains, including dampstains (significant dampstains to final leaves). Minor marginal tears to title page and several other leaves. Crease down title page. Paper repairs to title page. Several glosses, inscriptions and signatures. Old binding, without spine.
The copies of this edition vary in the typography of leaf 74. The present copy comprises 57 lines on recto and verso of leaf 74. (see: I. Sonne, Kiryat Sefer, VII, 1930, p. 484, no. 4).
•  Tur Choshen Mishpat, with Beit Yosef. Sabbioneta: Tobias Foa, 1559.
Prefaces by R. Yosef Karo and R. Yaakov ben Asher at the beginning of the book, and detailed table of contents for the laws in the Tur and in Beit Yosef.
Concluding words by R. Yosef Karo on p. 332b. He writes there that he began writing the work in Adrianople, 1522, and completed it in Safed, 1547, after which he spent time editing it and composing additions, until 1554.
332 leaves. 36.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Minor open tears to title page, affecting text on recto and verso. Paper repairs to both sides of title page, and to final leaf. Worming, affecting text in several places. Title page detached. Leaves trimmed, with damage to headings in several places. Handwritten inscriptions. Censor's signatures. Old binding, damaged.
There are copies with typographic variations to title page (printed dedications to various figures, and notice from the printer, see: Wiener, Kehilat Moshe, II, p. 548, no. 4507).