"Shita Mekubetzet", Livorno 1774 – Dedication by the Rebbetzin Widow of the Author of "Sha'ar HaMelech"

"Aseifat Zekeinim, Shita Mekubetzet" on Tractates "Bava Batra" and "Nazir". Rabbi Bezalel Ashkenasi. Livorno, 1774. First editioin. At the top of the title page is a dedication (slightly cutoff at the side) in Oriental handwriting: "A gift sent from the Rebbetzin widow of Rabbi Yitzchak Nunish to the Scholar the Mekubal… Shlomo Molcho". Stamp of the signature of the Rishon L'Zion Rabbi "Refael Meir Panizal".
This edition was printed by Rabbi Yitzchak Nunish-Bilmonti an Istanbul scholar author of "Sha'ar HaMelech" who reached Italy on a journey for collecting donations after the large fire which took place in Istanbul in 1772. At that time, he brought Rabbi Bezalel Ashkenasi's manuscript with him and began to print it in Livorno but he died near the end of the printing as written in the approbation by Livorno rabbis in Tamuz 5534 [1774], see this book.
The book was received by Rabbi Shlomo Molcho (the second – died in Cheshvan 5548 (1787), author of "Shemen Mishchat Kodesh", "mekubal" and Torah genius a Torah scholar of Thessaloniki, ascended to Jerusalem in 1780 to study at the yeshiva for "mekubalim" "Beit El".
[2], 97 leaves. 33.5 cm. Good condition, minor damages. Old binding with leather back.