(The RaSHBa”TZ). Pirush HaKethubah.

DURAN, SHIMON BEN TZEMACH.

circa

(Constantinople)

1515

Complete in eight leaves. Issued without title-page.

Vinograd, Const. 69; Ya’ari, Const. 83; Mehlman 704.

Exceptionally rare Constantinople imprint. R. Shimon ben Zemach Duran (1361-1444), a native of the isle of Majorca, was one of three prominent rabbinic figures who fled to Algeria in the year 1391 in order to escape anti-Jewish riots in their native Spain - the other two being R. Isaac ben Shesheth Perfet (Riva”sh) and R. Ephraim b. Israel Elankawa (buried in Tlemcen). See EJ, Vol. IX, col. 32; JE, Vol. I, p. 437. R. Shimon ben Zemach Duran became one of the foremost halachic decisors of North African Jewry.