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Commentary on the Ibn Ezra. First and Rare Edition. Venice, 1554, Copy of Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Ghirondi. - Megillat Starim, commentary by Rabbi Shmuel Mutot on the Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Torah. First & Rare Edition. Venice, [1554]. Alvisi Bragadin Press. This work is the first commentary on Iben Ezra. Copy of Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Ghirondi, Rabbi of Padua, author of Toldot Gedolei Yisrael UGeonei Italia and other works. His signature appears on the title page: יבי״ע גמ״ש = Mordechai Shmuel Ghirondi. Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Ghirondi (1800-1852) was the Rabbi of Padua, a kabbalist, bibliographer, teacher in the rabbinical seminary of Padua and researcher of the history of Italian rabbis. He served as Rabbi of Padua beginning in 1831, for 21 years. He composed several books on halachah and ethics, yet is renowned primarily for his book Toldot Gedolei Yisrael UGeonei Italia (Trieste, 1853). One of the leading Torah scholars of the generation writes about his greatness in Kabbalah: ”I have never seen anyone proficient in kabbalistic teachings like the kabbalist R. Mordechai Shmuel… Ghirondi”. His son, R. Efraim Refael Ghirondi writes of his father: ”A father to the poor… humble like Hillel, brought back many from sin… very well-versed in responsa and halachah, and rabbis of his time also posed halachic questions to him, and his wide-ranged responsa are recorded in his responsa named Kevutzat Kesef which remains in manuscript…”. The author Rabbi Shmuel Motot was a great sage, Kabbalist, commentator and translator, one of the sages of Spain in the second half of the 14th century, wrote additional essays on Torah and Tefillah as well as a commentary on Sefer Ha'yetzira that have yet to be published, only this commentary on the Iben Ezra was printed, as well as a translation of Rabbi Avraham ben Daoud's (Raava”d) book called ' Emunah Nosah' but the translation was not accepted.  52 Leaves. 17.6 cm.