Bidspirit auction | Chidushei HaRitva and Tosfot Rid.


Chidushei HaRitva and Tosfot Rid. First Edition on Masechet Kiddushin - Berlin, 1715. Pedigreed copy - Copy of Rabbi Yehuda of Lisa and Rabbi Reuven Yisroel Halevi Frankel. Addiitonal signatures.  Sefer Peirush HaRitva and the Tosfot Rid on Kiddushin. Berlin, 1715.  On the top of the title page, a signature: ” יהודא ליב מליסא ”, apparently referring to Rabbi Yehuda Leib Feiser of Lisa, the father of the Nachalat Shimoni.  Additional signature: ” חנוך העניך לוריא מקעמפין ”. On the lower part of the title page, a signature: ”נאם יהודא ליב באב”ד מק”ק לובזענ”, apparently Lubzentz.  On the guard leaf, the handwritten signature and stamp of the philanthropist Rabbi Reuven Yisroel Halevi Frankel.  Rabbi Reuven Yisroel Halevi Frankel, a Kock Chassid, the son-in-law of the philanthropist Rabbi Yehuda Leib Kushmirak of Poland (who donated 100,000 Rubles to purchase land from the Ottomans by the Company for Purchasing the Land of Jericho). Rabbi Yisrol was famed for his large library which contained many and rare. Sifrei Kodesh. His son-in-law was the Gaon Rabbi Zeev Moses, the Rav of Kalisch  and his stamp and an ownership notation from 1894 appear on the first leaf.  110 leaves.  The first and last 3 leaves are with taping, stains and tears. The rest of the copy is in good condition.