Pachad Yitzchak. Complete Set. 13 parts. The First Encyclopedia of Torah. Huge Production Printed over ...

Pachad Yitzchak. Complete Set. 13 parts. The First Encyclopedia of Torah. Huge Production Printed over Approximately 140 Years

Pachad Yitzchak - Alpha Beta Ravta, including halachahs and aggadahs, mishnah, breita, Sh"as, the Ri"f and adjudicative literature by Rabbi Yitzchak Lampronte of Firerra, known ever since as Ba'al Pachad Yitzchak. 13 parts. Venice - Reggio - Livorno, 1750-1888. Complete set. First edition. Giant project printed over approximately 140 years. Stefansky, Sifrei Yessod 531.

The first halachic-Talmudic Encyclopedia, it includes thousands of halachic-Tamudic topics in alphabetical order. Massive collection with almost all concepts and terms in Talmudic, midrashic and rabbinic literature. Monumental work also characterized by the arrangement of the entries.

The author had the privilege of completing writing this entire magnum opus. However, the printing was spread over a period of 140 years. The author managed to publish only the first parts, letters א-ד, in his lifetime. The volumes with letters ו-מ were printed in Venice, Reggio and Livorno 1798-1839 - decades after the author's passing; and completion of the work - letters נ onward, was done by the Mekitzei Nirdamim Society in Lyck and in Berlin 1864-1888.

Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of Rabbi Yitzchak Lampronte.

Specifications of the parts:

Part I: Venice, 1750. [7], 124; 76 leaf. Lacking the title page.

Part II: Volume I: Venice, 1753. [4], 105 leaf, [1] folded leaf with the order of writing a gett document.

Part II: Volume II: Venice, 1796. [1], 110 leaf.

Part III: Venice, 1798. [1], 93, without the folded leaf.

Part IV: Venice-Reggio, 1813. [1], 108; 28 leaf.

Part V: Livorno, 1839. [1], 241 leaf.

Part VI: Koenigsberg, 1864. [2] 100 leaf.

Part VII:  Lyck, 1866. [2] 196 leaf.

Part VIII: Lyck, 1868. [2] 173 leaf.

Part IX: Lyck, 1871. [2] 74 leaf.

Part X: Lyck, Mekitzei Nirdamim, Rudolph Siebert Press, 1874 [2] 200 leaf. 8°.

Part XI: Berlin, 1885. 148 leaf. There are several variants.

Part XII: Berlin, 1887. [1] 328, [1] p.

Part XIII: Berlin, [1] 183 leaf. Printed as a serial; there are copies with an additional frontispiece.

This set is bound in seven volumes: Three large volumes, 34 cm. and 5 smaller volumes 31 cm.

Overall fine condition.