Pachad Yitzchak

LAMPRONTI, ISAAC

v.p.

1750-99 and 1864-88

FIRST EDITION. Complete in ten volumes. Fold-out charts

Vinograd, Venice 1870, 1888, 2103, 2114, Reggio 22 & Livorno 456

Pachad Yitzchak is the most comprehensive and celebrated encyclopedia in the field of Halacha. Each entry includes material from the Mishnah, Talmud, Poskim, Rishonim and responsa literature. Lampronti pays special attention to the decisions of the Italian Rabbis, much of which had never published and was otherwise unknown. The work has a lengthy printing history. Originally published from letters "Aleph-Mem" in large folio volumes in various parts of Italy from 1750-99. Letters "Nun-Taf" were first published in Lyck-Berlin from 1864-88 by the M'kitze Nirdamim Society in smaller octavo sized volumes. See S. Brisman, A History and Guide to Judaic Encyclopedias and Lexicons (1987) pp. 159-60