(Editor). Mehararei Nemeirim

AKRA, ABRAHAM BEN SOLOMON

Daniel Zanetti

Venice

1599

FIRST EDITION. Title within ornamental border

Vinograd, Venice 877

A collection of invaluable “Kelalei ha-Gemara” or principles of Talmudic methodology. These essays were penned by R. Emanuel Sephardi and by the distinguished Egyptian halachist R. David ibn Zimra. Specialized studies on the hermeneutic principle of “kal ve-chomer” (a fortiori) were drawn from the writings of R. Samuel Al-Valensi and R. ibn Musa. In his introduction, the printer bemoans his inability to provide page numbers of the Talmudic citations, due to the scarcity of copies of the Talmud in Italy following its mass confiscation and subsequent destruction