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LOT 104:

Tur Yoreh De'ah, Venice 1564 – Glosses from the Beit Midrash of the Sema and Glosses by the Tiferet Shmuel

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Tur Yoreh De'ah, Venice 1564 – Glosses from the Beit Midrash of the Sema and Glosses by the Tiferet Shmuel
Tur Yoreh De'ah, with Beit Yosef. [Venice: Giovanni Griffio, 1564. Second edition of Beit Yosef]. Incomplete copy lacking title page, forewords and indexes. On the last page (398b), colophon of the proofreader R. Shmuel Pihem of Padua, dated 1564.
The book contains hundreds of glosses in early Ashkenazic script, by three different writers (ca. 17th century).
Study of the contents of the glosses discloses that the earlier glosses (in tiny script) are novellae from the Beit Midrash of R. Yehoshua Falk HaKohen, author of Sema – some of the novellae featured in these glosses appear in his books Perisha and Derisha. Many of these glosses were never published. In numerous glosses, the writer quotes the glosses of the Maharshal and R. Natan Shapiro on the Tur (in the Polish yeshivot of those times, the Tur was commonly studied with the students, with the yeshiva dean presenting somewhat different novellae in each study cycle of the Tur. These novellae were recorded by the disciples (or by the rabbi himself), resulting in several different editions of the same commentary to the Tur. This phenomenon can be observed in the writings of the disciples of the Maharshal – R. Shlomo Luria, those of the disciples of R. Natan Shapiro, as well as in the writings of the disciples of the Sema).
Many glosses from another writer, whose contents differ slightly to the text of the glosses of R. Aharon Shmuel Koidanover, printed in his book Tiferet Shmuel (Frankfurt am Main, 1696 – approximately twenty years after the passing of the author in 1676. The book was published by his son R. Tzvi Hirsh Koidanover, author of Kav HaYashar). The handwritten glosses include some novellae which were not printed in Tiferet Shmuel, and the printed book includes some glosses which do not appear here. The glosses are apparently in the author's handwriting.
A few glosses from a third writer, from the late 17th century.
The last leaf contains early handwritten inscriptions (deleted), amongst them one can discern: "…R. Avraham Segal ---".
R. Aharon Shmuel Koidanover (1614-1676), a leading Acharon, and foremost Torah scholar of his illustrious generation. Born in Koidanov (present day Dzyarzhynsk, Belarus), he was a disciple of the Chelkat Mechokek in Vilna, R. Yaakov of Lublin and his son Rebbe Heschel of Kraków (teachers of the Shach and Taz). He was renowned in all Ashkenazi communities, and served as rabbi or dean in many prominent communities of Poland and Germany: Vilna, Brisk, Nikolsburg, Głogów, Fürth, Frankfurt am Main, Kraków and others. His books include: Tiferet Shmuel, Birkat Shmuel, Birkat HaZevach, and Responsa Emunat Shmuel. His son was R. Tzvi Hirsh Koidanover, author of Kav HaYashar.
Incomplete copy, containing approx. [379] leaves, between leaves 1-398 only (originally: [31], 398 leaves. Lacking title page, forewords and table of contents, as well as 19 leaves from various places). Approx. 33 cm. Condition varies, good-fair. Damage to first and last leaves, and to a few leaves in middle of volume, repaired. Rest of book in good condition. Dampstains and a few mold stains. New binding.
In the middle of the book, many leaves are lacking, which were presumably removed from this volume in the past and dispersed in various places – some of them were sold separately as autographs of the Tiferet Shmuel – see for instance leaf 44 which is lacking in this copy, and was sold in Kedem Auction 62, item 169; and leaf 167, lacking in this copy, a photocopy of which appears in the enclosed material. The 19 leaves lacking in the middle of the volume are: 29, 31-34, 36, 39-41, 44-47, 50-52, 79, 163, 167.

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