Masecheth Yoma [Laws of the Day of Atonement]. With commentaries by Rashi, Tosaphoth, Maimonides and Rabbeinu Asher

Provenance: Isaac Hanan was the author of B’nei Yitzhak (Salonika, 1756), a collection of kabbbalistic homilies on the Pentateuch and halachic responsa. See JE, Vol. VI, p. 204; M. Benayahu, The Shabbatean Movement in Greece (1973), pp. 38-9, 61 (facsimile of autograph letter, signed). (The signature on the front fly tallies with that reproduced by Benayahu.) Moses Chaim Shabbatai Morpurgo (d.1751), son of the Rabbi-Physician Samson Morpurgo of Ancona (1681-1740), was an outstanding bibliophile and collector of Hebraica, whose correspondence with Turkish Jewish book dealers has provided a wealth of information concerning the printing and distribution of Hebrew books in Italy, the Netherlands and the Ottoman Empire through the eighteenth century. Morpurgo was not only a collector of books; it was he who published his deceased father’s collection of responsa, “Shemesh Tzedakah” (Venice, 1743). See M. Benayahu, “Letters of R. Moshe Hayim Morpurgo on Hebrew Books” in: Aresheth, Vol. I (1958), pp. 223-253; EJ, Vol. IV, col. 559; S. Simonsohn, History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua (1977), pp. 457-8. Israel Rovigo (d. 1790) was the Rabbi of Modena. See Simonsohn, pp. 458-9