Shlom Esther [commentary to the Book of Esther]

(TREVES), ISAAC BEN MORDECHAI GERSHON.

(Solomon & Joseph Yavetz

Constantinople

c. 1575)

FIRST EDITION. Scholarly marginal notes, some of a kabbalistic nature in a Sephardic hand, some in a later Italian hand in Latin. Wide margins

Vinograd, Const. 254; Yaari, Const. 225; Mehlman 663

Isaac Treves was a respected member of the Venice Beth Din. For more than thirty years he acted as proof-reader for various printing-houses in Venice and worked especially closely with those scholars who stemmed from Safed. The wide connections of the extended Treves Family allowed him to travel broadly, hence in the present work he states he gathered commentaries from rabbinic manuscripts from locales in France and Castile. See the exchange of articles concerning Isaac Treves between I. Sonne and D. Tamar in Kiryath Sepher, Vol. XXXIII (1958) pp. 377-8 and Vol. XXXIV (1959) p. 136