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"Mitzvat Nashim Melumadah", Precetti da esser imparati dalle donne Hebree, "Laws of Niddah, Challah, Candle Lighting and Derech Eretz". Venice: Appresso Giacomo Sarzina press, 1616. First edition.
Original, ornate leather binding, decorated with numerous rich gilt ornamentations.
On both sides of the binding appear decorations of a lion holding three sheaves. This illustration is similar to the emblem of the Altaras family, appearing in the book Araldica Ebraica in Italia, which shows a lion holding one sheaf. See: Elvio Giuditta, Araldica Ebraica in Italia, [Torino], [Società Italiana di Studi Araldici], 2007, part I, p.19.
Gilt impresion in the center of the back cover: "G. A".
On the verso of the last page, censor's signature of Renato da Modena, from 1626.
101, [10] pages. Missing [5] first pages. Approx. 19 cm. Fair condition. Many stains, including dampstains and large dark stains. Tears, including small open tears, affecting text in several places. Original decorated leather binding, with worming, wear and defects. Front binding board and spine detached.
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Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat, with the Me'irat Einayim commentary (Sma). Prague: Moshe son of Yosef Betzalel Katz, 1628. Second edition of the Sma.
Numerous glosses in Ashkenazic script in the margins, from close to the time of printing (ca. 17th century). The writer frequently cites "Mahari"s" [= R. Joel Sirkis, author of the Bach], sometimes adding to his words.
In folios 68-69, appear inscriptions in later handwriting (ca. 18th/19th century) beneath three of the glosses: "From the holy Maggid R. David of Stepan", "From the Maggid of Stepan", "From the Maggid of St[epan]". The significance of these inscriptions is unclear. The holy Maggid R. David of Stepan ("Der Stepiner Maggid"; d. 1811) was a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov and the Maggid of Mezeritch.
Ownership inscriptions: on leaf 4b: "Yehuda Leib Frenkel"[?], at the top of leaf 194a: "Yehuda Leib son of Yekutiel". On the last page: "So says Avraham son of R. Madil Segal" [possibly R. Avraham son of R. Madil Segal of Oettingen, author of "Ma'arechet Avraham" (Fürth, 1769), see: Assaf, Sources for the History of Jewish Education in Israel, new edition edited by Shmuel Glick, vol. I, Jerusalem and New York, 2001, p. 404).
3-320; 20 leaves. Lacking title page and following leaf. 32 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains and wear. Tears and open tears to several leaves, affecting text, repaired with paper. Many glosses slightly trimmed. Stamps. New binding.
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Parts of a printed sheet of a pocket edition of a 10-year calendar. Venice: Giovanni Caleoni, 1638.
The item contains four parts of a printer's sheet incorrectly cut in the middle, including the title page and colophon, totaling 24 pages on both sides (the inside pages of the sheet are cut in the middle).
These leaves contain the calendars of 1638-1643. The rest of the calendar is lacking.
Apparently, this calendar was appended to a siddur which was printed at that time in Venice, and this colophon is the end of that siddur, intended to be printed before the calendar leaves (the completion of the printing of the siddur is mentioned in the colophon as well as the name of the publisher and editor).
[4] leaves. 14.5X9.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, some dark. Wear. Marginal tears. Cutting and tears affecting text.
Does not appear in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, nor in the NLI catalogue.
Listed by Benayahu, Asufot, 13, Caleoni Presses, Book 108, p. 210.
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