SEPHER RAV MORDEChAI

Estimate

$1,000–$1,500

Hammer price

$1,400

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author

MORDECHAI BEN HILLEL HAKOHEN

printer

(Y. Marcaria)

Place

Riva di Trento

Publication

1559

Description

FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Divisional title richly historiated. Significant marginalia in a modern hand cross-referencing to 19th-century scholarly literature, e.g. A. Berliner - Rashi; H. Gross - Gallia Judaica, etc.

references

VInograd, Riva di Trento 9; Adams M-1747

summary

THE FIRST SEPARATE EDITION OF THE MORDECHAI. Earlier editions had been appended to Alfasi (see M. Benayahu, Hebrew Printing at Cremona (1971), p. 114). R. Mordechai ben Hillel Hakohen (1240?-1298) was an outstanding disciple of R. Meir (MaHaRa”M) of Rothenburg. His gigantic compendium, arranged according to the tractates of the Talmud, is a rich repository of the halachic traditions of Aschkenaz. The Mordechai was one of the most popular halachic texts studied in the German and Polish yeshivoth in the sixteenth century. See A. Siev, ”Hagahot ha-Rama al Ha-Mordechai”, in Hagut Ivrit be-America, Vol. I (1972), pp. 426-439; A. Halperin, “Sefer ha-Mordechai bi-Re'i Hadpasotav” in: Iyunim be-Sifrut Chazal...Melamed Festschrift (1982), pp. 323-338; EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 311-4

ff. 192, 45. Slightly wormed and stained. Modern boards. Folio

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