Even Ha’Ezer - Sepher RABa”N [responsa, Halachic novellae and discourses].

ELIEZER BEN NATHAN.

Moses ben Bezalel Katz

Prague

1610

FIRST EDITION. Title within magnificent historiated woodcut border incorporating printer’s device (Yaari, Printer’s Marks, no. 37). Signature of Dr. Michael Sachs on title-page.

Vinograd, Prague 186.

This work contributes much to our knowledge of the state of scholarship and way of life of the Jews of France, Bulgaria and especially Germany in the 12th century. A native of Mainz, the author (c. 1090-1170) was an important and well known figure of his age. See M. J. Heller, The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book, Vol. I, pp. 256-7.