[Halachic compendium]. Anonymous

KOL BO.

Giorgio di Cavalli

Venice

1567

On title printer's mark of Cavalli. Scholarly marginalia on f. 4v.; 13v; 60v

Vinograd, Venice 545

The Kol Bo was written at the end of the 13th or beginning of the 14th century. Scholars are still debating the identity of the author and the relation of the book to R. Aaron Hakohen of Lunel's Orchoth Chaim, whose contents overlap the material in the Kol Bo. There are those who maintain that the Kol Bo is by the same author - but an earlier draft of the Orchoth Chaim. Kol Bo draws on the works of many halachic authorities—be they R. Eliezer b. Nathan, R. Peretz of Corbeil, or R. Baruch b. Isaac, author of Sepher ha-Terumah. In the informed opinion of Prof. S.Z. Havlin, “the original material in the Kol Bo is negligible; almost all of it was taken from various sources.” EJ, Vol. X, cols. 1159-60. See also D. Amram, The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy (1909) p. 346