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Shaarei Dura, with the Mevo She'arim Commentary – Lublin, 1574 – First Edition of the Mevo She'arim Commentary. - Sefer Shaarei Dura, halachic rulings on the laws of Kashrut, by Rabbi Yitzchak HaLevi of Dura (Düren), with the Mevo She'arim commentary, by Rabbi Natan Shapiro (Maharnash). Lublin: Kalonymus son of Mordechai Jaffe, [1574]. First edition of the Mevo She'arim commentary.  Illustrated title page. Printer's device illustrating the Temple on f. 3b. This is the fifth edition of this work (first printed in Krakow, 1534). Since each edition of Shaarei Dura was printed based on a different manuscript, all the editions published in the 16th century are in effect first editions. This is also the first edition of Mevo She'arim by R. Natan Shapiro. (see: Rabbi David Daviltzki, Mavo LeSha'arei Dura of his edition, p. 17 and onwards).  The printing year according to Yitzhak Rivkind, *Dikdukei Sefarim* - Jubilee Book in Honor of Alexander Marx, Hebrew Section, New York 1950, p. 422, no. 26. See there regarding changes in the colophon. See also: Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book, Vol. II, p. 635. 110 Leaves. 29.7 cm.