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Sepher MaHaRI”L [Jewish laws and customs for the entire year according to Aschkenazi rite]. Third edition. [Vinograd, Cremona, 41. Benayahu, Cremona 32, not in Adams]. ff. 115. Title page supplied in facsimile. With Extensive Marginalia. Lightly browned and stained in places. Cremona, Vicenzo Conti. 1566. * Bound With: KABOLI, SOLOMON BEN MENACHEM. Shailoth Uteshuvoth Hageonim [Geonic responsa]. Second edition. Title within architectural arch flanked by grotesques with printer’s device below (Yaari, Printer’s Marks no. 38). ff. 46. Trace foxing. [Vinograd, Prague 65; Adams G-446]. Prague, Mordechai b. Gershom Katz. * Judah ben Saul Ibn Tibbon. Ruach Chen [introduction to philosophy]. Title within woodcut historiated architectural arch. Opening word within decorative four-part border with armory. Lightly browned, stained and wormed. ff. 20 (collates as per Adams and Benayahu). [Vinograd, Cremona 44; Benayahu, Cremona 36; Mehlman 1187; Adams J-404]. Cremona, Vicenzo Conti, 1566. * MOSES BEN SHEM TOV DE LEON. Hanephesh Hachachmah [Kabbalistic discourses on Reincarnation, the Soul and the precepts]. FIRST EDITION. Titile within typographical border. ff. (64). Browned. [Vinograd, Basle 231; Prijs, Basle 194]. Basle. Konrad Waldkirch. 1608

The Sepher MaHaRI”L contains extensive manuscript notations of historic importance throughout. Written in two Ashkenazic hands, consistently inserting the relevant custom of Frankfurt (including Manheim) and those of Worms and Mainz as cited by the MaHaRI"L. Many events, dates and decisions of prominent Rabbis and scholars from sixteenth and seventeenth century Frankfurt are cited. Such events include when Parshath Hachodesh, Rosh Chodesh and Brith Milah occurred simultaneously in 1655 (f. 73v). Another example cites the simultaneous occurrence of a wedding, Rosh Chodesh eve and Parshath Ki Teitzei in 1629 (f.75r). Discussions by the great scholar R. Akiva of Frankfurt (who was eulogized by the MaHaRa"l of Prague, 1597) are cited a number of times