Bidspirit auction | MORDECHAI BEN HILLEL ASCHKENAZI. Kitzur

MORDECHAI BEN HILLEL ASCHKENAZI. Kitzur Mordechai V’Simanav [abridgment of Sepher Mordechai]. Prepared by Yehoshua Boaz Baruch. FIRST EDITION. Formerly in the collection of Shmaryahu Zuckerman of Mogilev (with his stamps). ff. (2), 56. Signed by censors at end, few words censored, tiny single wormhole, few marginal repairs. Modern boards. Folio. Vinograd, Cremona 12. Cremona, Vicenzo Conti, 1557. R. Mordechai ben Hillel HaKohen (1240-98) was an outstanding disciple of R. Meir (MaHaRa’M) of Rothenburg. His compendium, arranged according to the Tractates of the Talmud, is a rich repository of the Halachic traditions of Aschkenaz and was one of the most popular Halachic texts studied in the German and Polish study-halls of the 16th/17th-centuries.