Darchei ha-Talmud

Campanton, Isaac

Christoforo Zanetti

Venice

1565

Second Edition. Title within architectural columns. Scattered scholarly maginalia. Solomon B. Freehoff copy

Vinograd, Venice 497; not in Adams

The only work of the Spanish rabbi, Isaac Campanton (1360-1463). He lived at a time when Jewish scholarship and Talmudic erudition was on the decline among the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula. His work is a useful contribution to Talmudic methodology, attempting to provide a practical guide for teachers of the Talmud. It is one of the earliest examples of a genre that has come to be known as “Siphrei ha-Kelalim.”