Auction 49 · Lot 239

Sepher Rav Mordechai [Halachic compendium]. WITH: Simanei Mordechai [Index] by R. Joseph Ottolenghi

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,200

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author

MORDECHAI BEN HILLEL HAKOHEN

printer

(Y. Marcaria)

Place

Riva di Trento

Publication

1559

Description

FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Divisional title richly historiated. Scattered marginalia in an old Aschkenazic hand. This copy appended with Joseph Ottolenghi’s scarce Simanei Mordechai

references

VInograd, Riva di Trento 9; Adams M-1747

summary

R. Mordechai ben Hillel Hakohen (1240?-1298) was an outstanding disciple of R. Meir (MaHaRa”M) of Rothenburg. His compendium, arranged according to the tractates of the Talmud, is a rich repository of the halachic traditions of Aschkenaz and was one of the most popular halachic texts studied in the German and Polish yeshivoth in the 16th-century. See A. Siev, ”Hagahot ha-Rama al Ha-Mordechai” in Haguth Ivrith be-Amerika, Vol. I (1972) pp. 426-439; A. Halperin, “Sefer ha-Mordechai bi-Re'i Hadpasotav” in: Iyunim be-Sifruth Chazal...Melamed Festschrift (1982) pp. 323-338; EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 311-14

ff.150, 150(i.e., 151), 154-192; 45. Opening four leaves with paper repairs with some textual loss at margins, stained. Gutter split. Contemporary vellum, worn. Folio

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