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MORDECHAI BEN HILLEL HAKOHEN. Sepher Rav Mordechai (Rhenish). With commentary by R. Menachem David of Tiktin. Second edition, first Edition of commentary. Title letters historiated. ff. 191, mispaginated. Lightly browned and stained, outer edge of opening few leaves worn, lower portion of title repaired, previous owner’s annotations. Later mottled calf, rebacked. Folio.  Vinograd, Cracow 209. Cracow, Isaac Prostitz, 1598. Arranged according to the order of the Talmudic tractates, the Mordechai is a great repository of Aschkenazic Halacha, in which over 300 references are cited, most notably the responsa of R. Meir of Rothenburg. The author, Mordechai ben Hillel HaKohen (1240? -1298), was brother-in-law to R. Meir HaKohen, author of Hagahoth Maimoniyoth, an Aschkenazic gloss to Maimonides’ Code, and an outstanding disciple of R. Meir ben Baruch of Rothenburg. Together with his wife and five children, R. Mordechai was killed in the Rindfleisch Massacres in Nuremburg (see EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 311-14). Most of the commentary here has been incorporated into the Chidushei Anshei Shem found in the standard Vilna edition of the Talmud, under the rubric “Mahara’m Tiktin.” However, the present first edition of the commentary, contains a number of responsa (viz. verso of title and f. 61b-62a), as well as an introductory essay by the exegete’s son Asher, left out of subsequent editions. Bound with: Another vol.