Shailoth U’Teshuvoth [responsa]. Parts II-III.

TRANI, JOSEPH BEN MOSES.

Caleoni-Bragadini

Venice

1645

On f. 1r, signature of former owner in Sephardic monogram [unidentified]. Scholarly marginalium on f. 15r of Part II. Introduction by author’s son and indices to responsa to Sec. Orach Chaim (a total of 3 ff.). The responsa to Sec. Orach Chaim (ff. 7), normally bound at the beginning of Sec. II, are bound at the very end of the volume. * Bound With: Trani, Joseph Ben Moses. Chidushei Gemara [novellae to Talmudic Tractates Kiddushin, Shabbath and Kethuboth] FIRST EDITION. Title pages set in architectural arches.

Vinograd, Venice 1266 and 1262.

One of the greatest rabbis of his generation, R. Yoseph Trani (1568-1639 - the Mahari”t), was the son of R. Moshe Trani (the Mabi”t). A resident of Safed for a large part of his life, he was placed as the Head of the Yeshivah of the city in 1594, an honor which indicated his ordination by R. Ya’akov Beirav (who attempted to renew the Semichah process). In 1604 the Mahari”t was appointed to the senior Rabbinic post in Constantinople, in essence the singular Halachic authority of the entire Ottoman Empire.