Auction 66

With Ancient Handwritten Comments: Shut LeBeit HaLevi - Edition with Additions made during the Author’s Lifetime. Venice 1632.

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Shut by Rabbi Yaakov (ben Yisrael) LeBeit HaLevi (born in Greece, lived and worked in Italy; the Chida said of him that his Torah and Gedulah united upon his table)

Edition with additions which was published in the author’s lifetime –  Venice, 1632. According to the colophon, the year of printing is 1634. 194 leaves. In the National Library, the book appears in the Rare Book Collection. Introduction by the author, in which he writes that he added chiddushim and other additions to this edition that did not appear in the previous edition (Venice 1614).

Fine new binding. Stains.  Moth perforations and damage. Some tears to the edges mostly not affecting the text. Fair-good overall condition.

Inside the books, several glosses in Sephardic script on the margins of the sheet, one of them trimmed. Ancient Ashkenazic notation on the title page. Has not been studied.