Glosses on the Tur and the Shulhan Arukh, Johanan Ghiron, [Italy, 17th-18th century]

This unpublished manuscript contains glosses on Jacob ben Asher’s Tur and Joseph Karo’s Shulhan Arukh (Hoshen Mishpat) by Johanan Ghiron, rabbi of Florence (1646-1716).

Sotheby’s is grateful to Menahem Schmelzer z”l and Benjamin Richler for cataloguing this manuscript.

Provenance

Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 65)

Physical Description

24 leaves on paper (9 blank), 5 ¾ x 4 ¼ inches; 147 x 107 mm, written in brown ink in Italian semi-cursive script, modern foliation in pencil; 2 tiny wormholes to first 8 leaves occasionally touching a letter, library stamps on initial blank and last page of text. Nineteenth-century brown cloth over marbled brown boards; lightly rubbed.

Literature

Hirschfeld (ms. no. 118)