Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures

Mitzvat Nashim Melumadah – Laws of Challah, Niddah and Candle-Lighting for Women – Venice, 1710 – Italian

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Mitzvat Nashim Melumadah, Precetti da Esser Imparati dalle Donne Hebree, laws of challah, candle-lighting and conjugal relations. Venice: Gionni de' Paoli, 1710. Italian, with some Hebrew.
Mitzvat Nashim Melumadah is an Italian translation of Seder Mitzvat HaNashim by R. Binyamin Aharon Salnik, author of Masat Binyamin [disciple of the Maharshal and Rama and leading 16th century posek], a work dealing with the mitzvot relating to women [mainly the three mitzvot of challah, niddah and candle-lighting]. The book was translated and adapted by R. Yaakov son of R. Elchanan Heilprin, an Ashkenazic Torah scholar of Italy [authored Nachalat Yaakov, which garnered an approbation by the Shlah].

[6] leaves, 56 pages. 22.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains and traces of former dampness. Light wear. Marginal tears to title page and several other leaves, affecting text of one leaf. Old cardboard binding.
Italian Jewry – Documents, Manuscripts and Printed Works
Italian Jewry – Documents, Manuscripts and Printed Works