Tiferet Ha'Gershuni – Frankfurt 1699 – First Edition – Dozens of Handwritten Novellae, Including Divrei Torah by ...

Tiferet Ha'Gershuni – Frankfurt 1699 – First Edition – Dozens of Handwritten Novellae, Including Divrei Torah by the Most Prominent Rabbis and Rebbes
Tiferet Ha'Gershuni by Rabbi Gershon Ashkenazi. Frankfurt am Mein, 1699. First edition.
The author was a disciple of Ha'Bach and the Maginei Shlomo and one of the leaders of the struggle against the Sabbateans. His leading disciple, Rabbi David Oppenheim, wrote of him in the preface of the Avodat Ha'Gershoni Responsa that "If the Torah had been forgotten in his days, he would have brought it back with his Pilpul".
A nicely etched title page.
On the upper part of the title page, an ancient signature from the 1740's: "Ya'akov ben Mordechai…" Additional signatures on the title page. On the reverse side of the title page, an inscription: "Belongs to Rabbi Yosef [Kraft]" and his impressive stamp. His signatures also appear throughout the book.
On the leaves of the book, many scholarly glosses, some of them very long. Most of them are independent Novellae and commentary on the verses of the Torah written by different writers during the 1740's.
One of the writer used to end his glosses with the words: "So I have heard". At the beginning of several glosses, it was written: "a nice Drush". One of the glosses ends with: "… Mr. Shmuel Lontschitz". An early gloss begins with the words: "By my Rabbi, Rabbi ya'akov Yitzchak of Lublin…" (Maybe the Seer of Lublin?). Another gloss begins with: "In the name of the Maggid of Dubno". Another gloss ends with the words: "In the name of the Maggid of Wodzisław" (The father of Rabbi Simcha Bunim of Peshischa). On leaf 37: "I have heard in the name of the great genius Rabbi Eliyahu Vilner" (The Vilna Gaon). On leaf 62: "U heard a good thing from the holy of holies Av Beit Din …".
The content of the glosses has not been studied. However, it is most likely that there are novellae by well-known rabbis and Rebbes which have never been printed!
96 leaves.
Condition: Good. Wear.