Sefer HaAruch – Pesaro, 1517 – Printed by Gershom Soncino – Signature of Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Labaton

Sefer HaAruch – Pesaro, 1517 – Printed by Gershom Soncino – Signature of Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Labaton
Sefer HeAruch, glossary of Talmudic words in alphabetical order, by R. Natan son of Yechiel of Rome. [Pesaro]: Gershom Soncino, 1517.
On leaf 2, ownership inscription of R. Chaim Mordechai Labaton (1780-1869), prominent Torah scholar and chief rabbi of Aleppo. He authored Nochach HaShulchan (see: LiKedoshim Asher BaAretz, p. 64).
Signature on the title page and leaf 19: "Aharon Altaras". Many inscriptions in Ladino on the endpapers, with accounts and names of people.
65, 67-102, 85-177, [1] leaves. Lacking one leaf (leaf 66). Misfoliation. Many leaves bound out of sequence. 28.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains and traces of past dampness. Wear. Tears to title page, including open tears, affecting border, repaired with strips of tape on recto and verso. Tears (including open tears) to other leaves, slightly affecting text, mostly repaired with paper or tape (open tear to leaf 11 with handwritten text replacement). Minor worming to final leaf, affecting text; marginal tears to final leaf – leaf mounted on paper (may have been supplied from a different copy). Some leaves and gatherings loose and detached. Early leather binding, damaged, partially detached.