SLONIK, BENJAMIN OF HARODNA. Mitzvath Nashim Melumadah: Hilchoth Nidah, Chalah, Hadlakath ha-Ner / Precetti da Esser Imparati dalle Donne Hebree. [Commandments of Women: Family Purity, Tithing Dough, Lighting Candles].

(WOMEN).

Giovanni Umberto

Venice

1652

Translated from Judeo-German to Italian by R. Jacob Halpron. Italian text interspersed with Hebrew. Fine contemporary brown morocco binding elaborately gilt-tooled with concentric borders of scrolls, flourishes and geometric designs, central panel with gilt-tooled corner arabesques and floral motifs centered on circular cartouche containing the name “Rachel D. Pelestrina” on upper and lower covers. Decorative end-pages, a.e.g

Vinograd, Venice 1302

A BOOK OF WOMEN’S LAWS IN AN ATTRACTIVE PERSONALIZED CONTEMPORARY BINDING. An Italian edition of this oft-republished work, dealing with the three principle religious duties of a married woman. The noted Polish author, Benjamin Slonik of Grodna (c. 1550-c.1619), left a body of Halachic opinion that remained authoritative long after his death. The title is derived from the phrase in Isaiah 29:13, "mitzvath anashim melumadah" ("a commandment of men learned by rote.") Craftily,the Author dropped the "aleph" in "anashim" (men) to yield "Mitzvath Nashim Melumadah" ("a commandment of women learned by rote.")