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Shaarei Dura, with the Mevo She'arim Commentary – Lublin, 1574 – First Edition of the Mevo She'arim Commentary. - Sefer Sha'arei Dura by Rabbi Yitzchak Halevi of Dura, with the Mevoh She'arim commentary. Lublin, Kalonymus ben Mordechai Jaffe, 1574. Title within historiated border, printer’s device illustrating the Temple on f. 3b. Shaarei Dura, composed in the 13th century, is one of the most important works on the laws of Kashrut, and is quoted extensively by both the Beit Yosef and the Rama. Until the printing of the Shulchan Aruch, Shaarei Dura was the primary Ashkenazic work on the laws of Kashrut. 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 Rabbi Natan Shapiro. Besides for its deep and thorough explanation on Sha’arei Durah, Mevo She’arim holds great importance as it contains halachic rulings and customs of Polish, Russian, Lithuanian and Ashkenazic Jewry. This is also the first edition to include additions from the Terumas HaDeshen. For more detail on the importance of this commentary, see the comprehensive monograph by R. Eliezer Katzman in Yeshurun, Vol. 13, pp. 617-700 and Vol. 14, pp. 935-64. For more detail on the dating this work, see M.J. Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book, Vol. II, p. 635. 110 Leaves. 30 cm.