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MORDECHAI BEN HILLEL ASCHKENAZI. Sepher Rav Mordechai [Halachic compendium]. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. ff. 192. Stained in places, several leaves with marginal wormed repairs, blank portion of title removed. Modern calf-backed linen boards. Folio. Vinograd, Riva di Trento 9. Riva di Trento, (Jacob Marcaria), 1559. This is the first separate edition of the Mordechai. Earlier editions had been appended to the Rif (see M. Benayahu, Hebrew Printing at Cremona (1971), p. 114). Lacks the Simanei Mordecai by Joseph Ottolenghi (ff. 45) appended to many copies.  Although Vinograd describes both works under one number, he himself cites Y.Y. Cohen, who lists them separately (nos. 4, and 9 respectively) in his census of books published in Riva di Trento. Giulanio Tamani (La Tipogrfia di Jacob Marcaria, Riva del Garda, 1991) also lists them separately, (see nos. 7 and 11).