Simanei (VeKitzurei Ha) Mordechai. First edition, Riva Di Trento, 1559.

Mordechai Ben Hillel Ashkenazi. 

First edition. Edited by Joseph Ottolenghi. Title letters within woodcut vignettes. Some under-linings and couple of marginal notations.

ff. 45 (supplement only). Few light stains. Bound in Valmadonna-custom deep cherry blind-tooled calf with gilt corner embellishments, spine titled in gilt. Folio. Vinograd, Riva 9.

Riva Di Trento: (Jacob Marcaria) 1559

45 Leaves. 29.6 Cm.

Valmadonna Trust Copy. Bound in Valmadonna-custom full calf.

Simmanei Mordecai by Joseph Ottolenghi was appended to many copies of Sefer Rav Mordrchai. Although Vinograd describes both works under one number, he himself cites Y.Y. Cohen, who lists them separately (respectively nos. 4, and 9) in his listing of seforim published in Riva di Trento. Giulanio Tamani, La Tipogrfia di Jacob Marcaria, Riva del Garda, 1991 also lists them separately - nos. 7 and 11.

R. Mordechai ben Hillel Hakohen (1240?-1298) was an outstanding disciple of R. Meir (MaHaRa”M) of Rothenburg. His gigantic compendium, arranged according to the tractates of the Talmud, is a rich repository of the halachic traditions of Aschkenaz. The Mordechai was one of the most popular halachic texts studied in the German and Polish yeshivoth in the sixteenth century. See A. Siev, ”Hagahot ha-Rama al Ha-Mordechai”, in Hagut Ivrit be-America, Vol. I (1972), pp. 426-439; A. Halperin, “Sefer ha-Mordechai bi-Re'i Hadpasotav” in: Iyunim be-Sifrut Chazal...Melamed Festschrift (1982), pp. 323-338; EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 311-4