Bidspirit auction | Responsa Mahari Mintz and Maharam

Responsa Mahari Mintz and Maharam Padua. Venice, 1553. First Edition. Important Marginallia. - Sefer He Lachem Zera LiTzedakah – responsa and rulings from Rabbi Yehudah (Mahari) Mintz and Rabbi Meir (Maharam) of Padua. First Edition .Venice, 1553. Aluise Bragadin. On the title page, there is an antique dedication to the dayan Rabbi Moshe Saragossi (a dayan in Egypt in the 18th century). Several antique marginal notations. Dedications to the beth Hamedrash of the patron, the esteemed Shemaya Angel. This is the first edition which was printed in the lifetime of the author, R. Meir Katzenellenbogen of Padua, grandson and disciple of R. Yehudah Mintz, who personally brought the work to press. In his preface at the beginning of the sefedr, R. Meir discusses the manuscripts of his teacher R. Yehudah Mintz (his father-in-law's father), and signs: ”So says Meir son of R. Yitzchak Katzenellenbogen of Padua”. Maharam Padua was a rabbi of Padua and the Veneto region, and one of the leading Torah scholars of his time in Germany and Italy. He was the grandson of R. Yechiel Luria, Rabbi of Brisk (Brest, Belarus). He corresponded on halachic issues with his two illustrious cousins, R. Shlomo Luria (the Maharshal) and R. Moshe Isserles (the Rama), and these responsa were printed in this sefedr, in Responsa of the Maharshal and in Responsa of the Rama. 134 Leaves. 20.5 cm.