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LOT 141:
KAYARA, SHIMON
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KAYARA, SHIMON
(Ba’al HaBeHa’G) (attributed to). Halachoth Gedoloth [Gaonic Rabbinic Code].
FIRST EDITION.
A wide-margined copy printed on thicker paper. Title within wreathed ornamental arch.
ff. (4), 144. Stained in places, trace wormed, previous owner’s marks. Later blind-tooled calf, rubbed. Folio.
Vinograd, Venice 333.
Venice, Adelkind for Giustiniani, 1548.
The introduction contains an enumeration of the positive and negative precepts. Whereas Maimonides' Sepher HaMitzvoth veered away from such an accounting, Nachmanides, in his glosses to the work of Maimonides, upheld the viewpoint of the Halachoth Gedoloth.
The authorship and dating of the Halachoth Gedoloth have been the subject of much study and has given rise to conflicting views. Generally speaking, medieval Aschkenazic authorities tended to the view that the author of the work was R. Yehudai Gaon, while their Sephardic counterparts believed the author was R. Shimon Kayara. Modern scholarship inveighs the latter view. See EJ, Vol. VII, cols. 1167-70.
