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Lot #    18882
Auction End Date    10/9/2007 10:16:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Bigdei Yom Tov
Title (Hebrew)    áâãé éåí èåá
Author    [Inscribed Copy] R. Yom Tov Krispin
City    Izmir (Symrna)
Publisher    A. Y. di Shigurah
Publication Date    1873
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 118, 12 ff. folio 305:195 mm., wide margins, usual light age staining, old hands. A very good copy bound in modern cloth boards. Inscribed by author on title.
          
Detailed
Description		    Only edition of these responsa by R. Yom Tov ben Joshua Abraham Krispin. Bigdei Yom Tov is comprised of a total of one hundred sixty-seven responsa on all four parts of the Shulhan Arukh which are followed by three eulogies. R. Krispin was a member of the distinguished Krispin family, one that provided Izmir with several generations of rabbis. His father, R. Joshua Abraham Krispin was the author of Avraham ba-Mahazeh (1869) and Va-Yeshev Avraham (1893), responsa, and novellae. His older brother, R. Samuel Krispin, was the author of Meshek Baiti, and his other brothers, Isaac and Aaron were, respectively, the authors of Shemo Yizhak, twenty-seven sermons and eulogies and Beit Aharon) on the Shulhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim, Yoreh De’ah and Even ha-Ezer, arranged in alphabetical order, and on the writing of names in bills of divorce.

Bigdei Yom Tov has approbations from R. Yoshua Solomon Ardami and R. Abraham Palache, followed by an introduction from the author. The text is in two columns in rabbinic letter. After the responsa there is and index and then the eulogies. A second volume of Bigdei Yom Tov, novellae on the Shulhan Arukh, was printed in 1887.

          
Reference
Description		    BE bet 223; Vannanu, Encyclopedia Arzei ha-Levanon II 865; Yaari, Izmir, no. 195.
        
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19th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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