Sha’arei Dura [Rabbinic Code]. With commentaries

ISAAC BEN MEIR OF DÜREN.

Meir Parenzo

Venice

1548

Second edition. Printer’s device of seven-branched candelabrum on title (Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 14). On title, signature of former owners "Raphael Rovigo" and "Samuel Foa." On final page, signature of censor "Dominico Irosolimitano, 1598" (Wm. Poppers,The Censorship of Hebrew Books, Censors' Inscriptions, Pl. IV, no. 1). The Israel Mehlman copy.

Vinograd, Venice 359.

A partial Code, dealing with dietary and menstrual laws, composed in the latter part of the 13th-century, it is considered most authoritative and is often quoted by the final codifiers. Sources and reasons for decisions are provided, the authorities quoted are almost entirely Franco-German. See EJ, Vol. VI, col. 261-262.