Maharam Mintz Responsa – Krakow 1616 – First Edition – the Copy of Rabbi Avraham Hirsch Lvov, the Right-Hand Person ...

Maharam Mintz Responsa – Krakow 1616 – First Edition – the Copy of Rabbi Avraham Hirsch Lvov, the Right-Hand Person of the Chatam Sofer
Responsa which has never been printed and novellae that no eye has seen till this day. Authored by Rabbi Moshe Mintz Segal.
There are interesting textual variations between the copies of the book (see: The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book; there, a different title page than the one before us is described as well as additional textual variations).
First edition. Extremely rare! Has never been seen in auctions in Israel!
On the title page, an inscription: "Belongs to the well-known Rabbi Avraham Hirsch Lvov".
Rabbi Avraham Hirsch Lvov (was also called "Rabbi Hirsch Lemberger") was born in 1777. He was the leader of the community of Pressburg (and for a time, the leader of all Jews of Hungary) at the time of the Chatam Sofer. He used to visit King Frantz and Emperor Ferdinand regularly and was close to their ministers. He acted in favor of the Jewish community of Pressburg and among others, succeeded in expanding the Jewish area of Pressburg. He also received permission from the Emperor to install an Eruv in Pressburg.
It is told when the school of Pressburg opened, in 1820, Rabbi Avraham Hirsch tore his clothes and sat Shiva!
Rabbi Avraham Hirsch Lvov, with the Chatam Sofer, signed the regulations of the vocational school of the community (in 1821).
It is also told in Memoirs that "when the well-known pious Rabbi Avraham Hirsch Lvov died on the 21st of Tamuz 1834, the leaders of the community wanted to dress the horses black in his honor yet the Chatam Sofer did not permit them to do so". The Chatam Sofer eulogized him, saying: "The crown of our head has fallen! I have been a boy and have grown older and I have never seen a leader with such virtues and pious as him!"
He was also known as an expert Mohel. Among his descendants: Rabbi Moshe Natan Neta Lemberger Av Beit Din of Mako.
An additional (pencil) inscription on the title page: "Schreiber". On leaf [8] an ancient ownership inscription: "… Bendet Levi…"
154 [Should be 158], [12] leaves. 20.5 cm.
Condition: Good. A restored omission on the title page. Wear typical of the age of the book.