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Tumat Yesharim – Anthology of Talmudic and Halachic Works – Venice, 1622 – Ownership Inscriptions
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Tumat Yesharim, anthology of works edited by R. Binyamin Mutal. Venice: Giovanni Cajon for Pietro and Lorenzo Bragadin, 1622. First edition.
The present book is an anthology comprising four central works and several additional smaller works, printed here for the first time: "Ohalei Tam" – responsa by R. Tam ibn Yachya; Derech Tamim, glosses on the Rif and his commentators by R. Tam ibn Yachya and his son R. Gedaliah ibn Yachya (including glosses by R. Betzalel Ashkenazi, R. Yitzchak Luria, and R. Avraham Treves Tzarfati); Temim De'im, rulings, commentaries and Hasagot on the Rif by R. Avraham son of David of Posquières (the Raavad); Klalei Shmuel by R. Shmuel Sirilio; and Hagahot Sifra copied by the editor R. Binyamin Mutal; and several additional minor works.
The editor of the book, R. Binyamin Mutal, was a Torah scholar of Constantinople. He edited and published several other works.
On title page, several handwritten ownership and other inscriptions: "The wise R. Immanuel"; "Meir Shlomo Farhi" [younger brother of Chaim Farhi, a governor of the Acre community; purchased a courtyard in Tiberias in 1831]; and handwritten and signed inscription of the famous bookseller R. Baruch Esman of Kiev (1836-1910; author of Chad VeChalak): "One of the books sent to me from Frankfurt in Adar 1867. Price… Baruch Esman"; and other inscription. On p. 119b of second sequence, learned gloss in Oriental script.
[1], 2-114; 120; 94 leaves; 66 leaves. 29 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including many dampstains. Wear and tears. Open tears and paper repairs to first leaves. Worming. Bookplate. Old fabric binding.
Provenance: Collection of Prof. Jordan S. Penkower.
Early Printed Books – 16th-17th Centuries
Early Printed Books – 16th-17th Centuries