Manuscript, Sefer Pelaim – glosses, selections and commentaries relating to Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, Yoreh Deah, Even HaEzer and Choshen Mishpat, by R. Refael Meisels of Horokhiv, Rabbi of Poryck (Pavlivka), author of Tosefet Shabbat. [Russia-Poland, ca. early 1800s].
The present work includes glosses by R. Refael Meisels on the Shulchan Aruch, included in his Tosefet Shabbat. They were first printed in incomplete form in the first edition of the book, Frankfurt an der Oder, 1767. The glosses were subsequently printed in their own right under the name Sefer HaYekar, Lviv 1795, and finally printed in corrected and complete form, with subtitles (summarizing the subject of each gloss), in the second edition of Tosefet Shabbat, Zhovkva 1806 (at the beginning and end of the book). In the second edition, the publisher and author's son R. Chaim Meisels names the work Sefer Pelaim, a choice he explains in the introduction as the initials of Parparaot LeChochmah Amarim Yekarim MiPaz ("supplements to wisdom, sayings more precious than gold"), as Sefer Pelaim is a supplement to the main work, Tosefet Shabbat.
The present manuscript appears to have been copied from the Zhovkva 1806 edition of Sefer Pelaim (see enclosed material), as it also includes the subtitles appearing in this edition.
[21] leaves (written on both sides). 34 cm. Bluish paper. Fair-good condition. Stains. Wear and tears. Light worming, affecting text. New binding.
