She’erith Yoseph [on the methodology of the Talmud]

IBN VERGA, JOSEPH

Moses Elishama Zifroni for Tommaso Ruffinelli

Mantua

1593

Second edition.

Vinograd, Mantua 186; not in Adams

Although Mantua was comparatively liberal in its treatments of resident Jews, Hebrew printers were obliged to undertake their work at the presses of Christian printers who had secured a monopoly of the right to issue Hebrew books. See Amram, pp. 324-5 and 333. The author, who lived in Turkey, was the son of Solomon ibn Verga, author of the historical chronicle, Shevet Yehudah.