❧ Description
She’elot u-Teshuvot ha-Rashbash — Responsa of Shlomo ben Shimon Duran (Rashbash, 1400-1467), son of the Rashbatz and his successor at the head of the Algiers rabbinate. The collection continues the paternal work of halakhic codification for the Maghrebi communities of the first half of the fifteenth century (matrimonial law, commerce, relations with non-Jewish authorities under Hafsid then Ottoman Algeria).
Provenance: 1 Composed in Algiers, second third of the fifteenth century 2 Editio princeps: Livorno, 1742
Codicological notice — origin Algiers, central Maghreb, Algeria; script: Sephardic; editorial status: Partial edition available.
— Source: Mémoires des Manuscrits Juifs du Moyen-Âge Maghrébin (MMJMM / Collectif GMPL), https://mmjmm.org/corpus/catalogue/to-locate-duran-responsa-rashbash.