Hilchoth Schechitah

(SHECHITAH).

Italy

1716

Manuscript on paper. 27 leaves. In a fine square Hebrew Italian script. With inscriptions in Italian on endpapers.Title within a floral design. With artistic illustration of ritual knives

A HANDBOOK FOR THE SHOCHET (ritual SLAUGHTERer). Contains the basic laws, plus a question and answer format for quick review. The owner, Yaakov Chaim B. Moshe Yitzchak Escoriel, states in the poetic colophon “ this book I bought with my own money...and signed my name so that no one from the marketplace will state that it was stolen from him, ‘ve-kol mi sheyado yimshach, ha-nachash otho yishach’ (whever will pull it away will be bitten by a snake).”