Auction 22 Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters
May 8, 2012 (Your local time)
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LOT 339:

Chiddushei Aggadot Maharsha – Frankfurt am Main, 1682 - Signatures and Glosses

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Sefer Chiddushei Aggadot on the Shas. Rabbi Shmuel Eliezer Eidels [Maharsha]. Frankfurt am Main, [1682].
Signatures on title page: “Reuven Moshe Modena”, “Ya’akov Chaim son of Yichye” [the Ga’on Rabbi Ya’akov Chaim son of Yichye, among rabbis of Italy. Disciple of Rabbi Yishma’el HaCohen of Medena author of" Zera Emet" and Dayan in his Beit Din. Wrote an introduction to book of his rabbi]. Dozens of lengthy glosses in Italian handwriting [by Rabbi Ya’akov Chaim son of Yichye?]. The author repeatedly alludes to the books "Shnei Luchot HaBrit" and" Ta’ava La’Einayim" by Rabbi Shlomo Algazi.
Faulty pagination. [2], 50, 52-63, 66-141; 36, 38-46, [7] leaves. 31 cm. Fair condition, stains and wear, remnants of moth stains, tears on title page and on following page. New binding.