Bidspirit auction | RECANATI, MENACHEM. Piskei Halachoth [Rabbinic

RECANATI, MENACHEM. Piskei Halachoth [Rabbinic law]. FIRST EDITION. First word within floriated surround. A wide-margined copy. Few marginal notes. ff. (12), 62. Stained in places, censored, title worn, signature removed from f.2. Recent linen boards. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Bologna 12; Mehlman 787. Bologna, The Company of Silk Weavers, 1538. First edition of the Piskei Halachoth.   Later editions have been heavily censored, indeed lacking entire chapters. The majority of the censored material pertains to Gentiles, or to Jews who converted to Christianity. See Y. Lipschitz, Piskei Hilchot Recanti in: Moriah, Vol. VIII, nos. 6-7 (1979) pp. 2-9. The author was one of the foremost Italian Kabbalists and Halachic authorities of the 13th-century.