Simanei VeKitzurei HaMordechai. Edited by Joseph Ottolenghi.

MORDECHAI BEN HILLEL ASCHKENAZI

(Jacob Marcaria)

Riva di Trento

1559

Second edition. The R. Abraham Joseph Solomon Graziano (Ish Ge’r) copy with his signature on title (and two other places), as well as a signature “…Modena…” Verso of title-page is a 3-line autograph manuscript note by Graziano recording from whom, and where, he purchased this book. Ish Ger has also noted the Tracatate division on top left corner of each recto leaf throughout the entire volume.

Vinograd, Riva 11.

A learned and broad-minded rabbi, Abraham Joseph Solomon Graziano of Modena (d. 1684), was a noted halachic scholar, bibliophile and poet. See S. Baron, Teshuvah…me’eth R. Abraham Graziano in: Studies in Memory of A.S. Freidus (1929) pp. 122-37; A. J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress, pp. 155-6.