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Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim and Yoreh De'ah – Krakow, 1606-1607 – First Edition of the Sources of the Rema's Glosses ...

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Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim and Yoreh De'ah – Krakow, 1606-1607 – First Edition of the Sources of the Rema's Glosses – Glosses and Signatures
Shulchan Aruch with the Rema's glosses, parts Orach Chaim and Yoreh De'ah. [Krakow: Isaac Prostitz, 1606-1607].
In this edition, the sources of the Rema's glosses were added for the first time, with brief comments in parentheses. The foreword to this edition states that the sources were compiled from the book Darkei Moshe of the Rema.
The foreword does not identify the compiler of the sources. Some claim that it was R. Shmuel HaLevi Horowitz of Krakow, nephew of the Rema (d. 1622), mentioned in the Krakow 1616-1620 edition as one of the printers, who added the sources from a manuscript Darkei Moshe.
These sources drew criticism shortly after they were printed. In R. Yehoshua Falk's preface to his book Meirat Enayim (Sema) printed with Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat, Prague 1614-1615, he criticizes the present edition claiming that it ignores the Shulchan Aruch and relates only to the Rema, and even the sources of the Rema were abridged and altered, to the point there is almost nothing left of them. Some of the Acharonim, who did not know that the sources were not authored by the Rema, went to great length to understand and resolve the difficulties which they raise.
Handwritten glosses and references in the margins in early Ashkenazic script (typical of the 17th-18th centuries). Birth records and signature on the verso of the title page of Yoreh De'ah part, dated 1696-1700 (another signature, slightly trimmed, on the first leaf of Orach Chaim part). Additional inscriptions on final leaf of the Orach Chaim part, and signature of R. Chaim son of R. Shmuel son of R. Shlomo Kohen Chazan of Brody (see item 136).
Incomplete copy. Orach Chaim part: 2-3, 5-61, 64-75, 72 [i.e. 76]-125, 128-176 leaves. Lacking: title page and leaves 4, 62-63, 126-127 (altogether lacking: 6 leaves). Leaves 61 and 64 erroneously bound after leaf 75. Yoreh De'ah part: 1-24, 29-170 leaves. Lacking leaves 25-28 (altogether lacking 4 leaves). 19 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming, affecting text. Tears and open tears, primarily marginal, affecting text. Inscriptions and signatures. Several detached leaves. Old leather binding, damaged, without spine.

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