Sepher Rav Mordechai [Halachic compendium]. WITH: Simanei Mordechai [Index] by R. Joseph Ottolenghi

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Lot 239

MORDECHAI BEN HILLEL HAKOHEN

Sepher Rav Mordechai [Halachic compendium]. WITH: Simanei Mordechai [Index] by R. Joseph Ottolenghi

FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Divisional title richly historiated. Scattered marginalia in an old Aschkenazic hand. This copy appended with Joseph Ottolenghi’s scarce Simanei Mordechai ff.150, 150(i.e., 151), 154-192; 45. Opening four leaves with paper repairs with some textual loss at margins, stained. Gutter split. Contemporary vellum, worn. Folio VInograd, Riva di Trento 9; Adams M-1747

Riva di Trento: (Y. Marcaria) 1559

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,200

R. Mordechai ben Hillel Hakohen (1240?-1298) was an outstanding disciple of R. Meir (MaHaRa”M) of Rothenburg. His 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 ha-Rama al Ha-Mordechai” in Haguth Ivrith be-Amerika, Vol. I (1972) pp. 426-439; A. Halperin, “Sefer ha-Mordechai bi-Re'i Hadpasotav” in: Iyunim be-Sifruth Chazal...Melamed Festschrift (1982) pp. 323-338; EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 311-14