Chukath ha-Pesach. With commentary

(HAGADAH).

Joseph Ya'avetz

Salonika

1569

FIRST EDITION. Ya'avetz florets on title. Instructions in Judeo-Español. Wide margins. Former owner's signatures: Mordechai Gerondi and Moshe ben Raphael Luria. On penultimate page, signatures of Censors: "Dominico Irosolimitano and Alessandro Scipione, 1597" (see Wm. Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books, Pl. III, nos. 1 and 8)

Vinograd, Salonika 83; Ya'ari, 22; Yudlov, 27; Yerushalmi, pl. 32.

Wide-margined copy of an exceptionally rare edition. R. Moses Pesante, was an emissary from Safed who travelled through the Balkans, publishing in Constantinople in 1567 two works, one Ner Mitzvah, a commentary on ibn Gabirol's Azharoth for Shavu'oth, the other Yesha Elokim, an exposition on the Hoshanoth. He was killed in 1573 by Turkish brigands near the Greek city of Arta. (See EJ, Vol. XIII, col. 328; Ya'ari, Shluchei Eretz Israel [1977], pp. 236, 889.) Two commentaries wrap around the text of this Hagadah: RaMa”P (R. Moses Pesante) and RaSHa”B (R. Solomon Baruch, Pesante's co-author). Pesante makes extensive use of the medieval commentaries of Rabbeinu Isaiah di Trani, and of the two brothers R. Zedekiah and R. Benjamin Anav found in Shibolei ha-Leket. The Hagadah was endorsed by R. Samuel ben Perachiah Kohen Tzedek of Salonika. See M.M. Kasher, Haggadah Sheleimah (1955), Introduction, pp. 208-209, no. 68; S.K. Mirsky, Shibolei ha-Leket ha-Shalem (1966), Introduction, pp. 46-48