SEphER RAV MORDECHAI.

The first separate ediion of the Mordechai, earlier editions had been appended to Alfasi. This copy lacks the Simanei Mordecai (ff. 45) by Joseph Ottolenghi appended to many copies - allthough Y.Y. Cohen, in his census of books published in Riva di Trento lists them separately (nos. 4 and 9). Giulanio Tamani, La Tipografia di Jacob Marcaria, Riva del Garda,1991 also lists them separately (nos. 7 and 11). R. Mordechai ben Hillel (1240? -1298) was an outstanding disciple of R. Meir (MaHaRa”M) of Rothenburg. His gigantic compendium, arranged according to the tractates of the Talmud, is a rich repository of the halachic traditions of Aschkenaz and was one of the most popular halachic texts studied in the German and Polish yeshivoth in the 16th-century. See A. Siev,”Hagahot HaRama al HaMordechai”, in Hagut Ivrit B’America, Vol. I (1972), pp. 426-439; A. Halperin, “Sefer HaMordechai B’Re'i Hadpasotav” in: Iyunim B’Sifrut Chazal…Melamed Festschrift (1982), pp. 323-38; EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 311-14.