Teshuvoth HaGeonim [Geonic responsa]. With commentary Iyei Hayam by Israel Moshe Hazan.

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(HAZAN, ISRAEL MOSHE)

Teshuvoth HaGeonim [Geonic responsa]. With commentary Iyei Hayam by Israel Moshe Hazan.

First edition of commentary. A wide margined copy. With <<extensive scholarly marginalia>> in Sephardic and Ashkenazic hands. ff. (2), 120. Ex-library, slight staining, first two leaves and final four leaves from a shorter copy, opening endpapers with pencil notes. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, rubbed. 4to.

Livorno: E. Ben Amzog 1869

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $400

The knowledgeable marginal notes contain a wide range of citations from the Rishonim and other Gaonic responsa. Some of the Sephardic notes are transcribed on the same page in a later Ashkenazic hand (see f. 5a et al). R. Yisrael Moshe Chazan (1808-62), rabbi of Rome, Corfu and Alexandria, was the grandson of Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Haham Yoseph Hazan (1741-1819) author of Chikrei Lev. See JE, Vol. VI, p. 288.