Terumat HaDeshen / Pesakim UKetavim – First Editions – Venice, 1519 – Printed by Daniel Bomberg – Signatures of ...

Terumat HaDeshen / Pesakim UKetavim – First Editions – Venice, 1519 – Printed by Daniel Bomberg – Signatures of Rabbi Avraham Rovigo

Terumat HaDeshen, responsa part, by R. Yisrael Isserlein. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, [1519]. First edition.
Printed and bound with: Pesakim UKetavim, by R. Yisrael Isserlein. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, [1519]. First edition.
Terumat HaDeshen, comprising 354 halachic responsa, is considered a basic halachic work, and serves as an important source on the practices of Ashkenazi Jews, repeatedly quoted by the Rema in his HaMapa on Shulchan Aruch.
Pesakim UKetavim, responsa compiled by a disciple of R. Yisrael, also contains many rulings and customs which he heard or saw from his teacher.
Both works were usually printed together, and in later editions became two parts of a single work titled Terumat HaDeshen.
On the title page of Terumat HaDeshen, signatures (partially deleted): "Mine, Avraham Rovigo" – possibly R. Avraham Rovigo (1650-1714), leading Italian kabbalist, close disciple of the Remez in Italy. After his immigration to Eretz Israel, he founded the yeshiva for kabbalists in Jerusalem and was appointed Rishon LeTzion.
Other signatures on the title page and inscriptions on final leaf and back endpaper.
Censorship deletions in several places (some of the deleted text rewritten in Italian script).
Two books in one volume. Terumat HaDeshen: [132] leaves. Pesakim UKetavim: [53] leaves. 25 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Traces of past dampness to final leaves. Marginal open tears to title page and several other leaves, repaired with paper. Worming (minutely affecting text in one place), repaired with paper. Many handwritten inscriptions on final leaves. Pen markings on index leaves of Terumat HaDeshen. Censor's signatures at end of Terumat HaDeshen. New leather binding.

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