Kitzur Mordechai V’Simanav [abridgment of Sepher Mordechai]. Prepared by Joshua Boaz Baruch.

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(MORDECHAI BEN HILLEL ASCHKENAZI).

Kitzur Mordechai V’Simanav [abridgment of Sepher Mordechai]. Prepared by Joshua Boaz Baruch.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> ff. (2), 56. Previous owner’s signature on title, trimmed and stained. Modern calf. Folio. Vinograd, Cremona 12; Benayahu, Cremona 9.

Cremona: Vicenzo Conti 1557

Est: $1,300 - $1,500

R. Mordechai ben Hillel Hakohen (1240? -1298) was the 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. See A. Siev,”Hagahot ha-Rama al Ha-Mordechai” in: Hagut Ivrit be-Amerika, Vol. I (1972), pp. 426-39; A. Halperin, “Sefer ha-Mordechai bi-Re’i Hadpasotav” in: Iyunim be-Sifrut Chazal… Melamed Festschrift (1982), pp. 323-38; EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 311-14.