Auction 55 Part I - Rare and Important Items
May 9, 2017 (Your local time)
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Manuscript, Novellae by Rabbi David Modena - Italy, 16th Century - Unprinted Composition

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Manuscript, novellae and laws on treatises of Choshen Mishpat, by R. David Modena. [Italy, 16th century].
Handwritten by the author. Cursive Italian Hebrew script. Part of a hitherto unprinted long composition written by R. David Modena.
Includes novellae and summaries of treatises and views on the laws of Choshen Mishpat.
The writer reviews and expands on the Talmud and cites the Ba'alei HaTosfot and the Spanish sages and expresses his opinion or determines the halacha of that treatise (see Hebrew description for examples).
Another section of this composition is known (see digitized manuscripts on the NLI website, Wallach Manuscript 372). Another section exists in the Russian State Library in Moscow (Moscow Manuscript - Ginzburg 800-801), and that manuscript is dated 1558.
Several Italian sages with the name R. David Modena lived during the 15th and 16th centuries. One was the disciple of the Maharik. We are not certain of the identity of the author of this manuscript.
[31] leaves. 29 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, wear and tears to several leaves. Detached leaves.

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