(c.1500-1575). Chidushei Sugyoth [Talmudic novellae]

MODENA, DAVID

Italy

Mid-16th century

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in cursive Italian hand on paper. * Accompanied by detailed description of manuscript prepared by Dr. Shlomo Zucker, Jerusalem.

UNPUBLISHED AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of innovations and commentaries clarifying the various opinions and codifiers of the halachah in the sections of Nashim and Nezikin of the Talmud. Beneath each citation of the Gemara, the author left space in this manuscript to fill in the rulings and opinions, hence there are spaces throughout as well as entire pages that are blank. This manuscript was written in the very country and during the very era that state and ecclesiastical authorities were seeking to eradicate any presence of Talmudic writings. Two additional autograph manuscripts of this Talmudic work by the author, dated 1558, are presently housed in the Ginzberg Collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow (ms. nos. 800-801).