Pirkei Avoth [Ethics of the Fathers].

(MISHNAH).

(Isaac Prostitz)

Cracow

1576

With commentary “Minchah Chadashah” by Jechiel Michel Maraptchik, compiled from commentaries including Rashi, Maimonides, Ovadiah Bartenura, Don Isaac Abrabanel, Moses Almosnino, Beith Lechem Yehudah, Lev Avoth, et al. FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut garlanded architectural arch. Marginalia in an early hand throughout. With an including an interesting discussion as to why the city of Safed is more spiritually elevated than the other holy cities of Eretz Israel.

Vinograd, Cracow 40.

The first commentary on Ethics of the Fathers by a European Rabbinic scholar. See Y. Y. Cohen who also attests to the scarcity of this work in his bibliography of commentaries and translations of Ethics of the Fathers. See Y. Y. Cohen, Masecheth Avoth-Perusheiha Ve’Tagomotheiha Be’aspaklarith Hadoroth, in Kiryath Sepher Vol. 40 (1964-5), pp. 104-117, no. 14.