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Yefeh Mareh – Venice, 1590 – Signatures and Glosses of Tunisian and Algerian Rabbis

Yefeh Mareh, commentaries and novellae on aggadot of Talmud Yerushalmi [including the original text], by R. Shmuel Yaffe Ashkenazi. Venice: Giovanni di Gara, [1590]. Second edition.
On verso of title page, special printer's device of Asher Parenzo.
Ownership inscriptions on title page: "This is my book, Meir Lumbroso"; "This belongs to… R. Avraham Lumbroso"; "Yitzchak"; "Purchased by me, Eliyahu Chai Guedj son of R. Yosef". On the Lumbroso rabbinic family of Tunisia, see: Kohen, Malchei Tarshish, Netivot 1986, pp. 201-208). R. Eliyahu Chai Guedj was a Tunis-born rabbi of Algiers (d. ca. 1908).
Glosses by several writers, in script characteristic of Tunis and Algiers. Most glosses somewhat trimmed.

331 leaves. 29 cm. Fair condition. Browning of paper on several leaves. Many stains, including dampstains and traces of former dampness. Wear. Marginal tears and open tears to title page and other leaves, mainly to first and last leaves, affecting text (verso of title page repaired with paper strip). Worming. New binding.

CB, no. 7037, 1; Zedner, p. 750; Roest, p. .1117