Halichoth Olam [“Eternal Ways”]. With Samuel ha-Nagid. Mevo ha-Gemara [“Introduction to Talmud”] / Clavis Talmudica [Key to the Talmud]. Latin translation by Constantin L’Empereur van Oppyck. [Talmudic methodology]

YESHUAH BEN JOSEPH HALEVI.

Elsevir

Leiden

1634

FIRST LATIN EDITION. Title in red and black. Hebrew and Latin translation face-`a-face

Vinograd, Leiden 39

The Mevo ha-Gemara of R. Samuel ha-Nagid of Granada (993-1055) was based on an earlier work (extant only in fragmentary form) by R. Samuel ben Chofni Gaon (d. 1013), Gaon of the famed Sura academy in Babylonia, and father-in-law of Hai Gaon. See EJ, Vol. XIV, cols. 807-8. R. Yeshuah Halevi was an Algerian Talmudist who arrived in Castille in 1467. See N.Z. Friedmann, Otzar Harabanim, p. 246, no. 11722. Constantin L’Empereur van Oppyck (1591-1648) was a Dutch Christian Hebraist. He translated the following Hebrew works into Latin: Mishnah, Tractates Midoth and Bava Kama; the Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela; Ibn Yachya’s Commentary to the Book of Daniel; the commentaries of Abravanel and Alsheich to Isaiah; and finally, the work of the grammarian Moses Kimchi. See EJ, Vol. VIII, col. 42