Halachot Ketanot – Hundreds of Notes (Handwritten Composition) – Venice, 1704 – Copy of Rabbi Shmuel Zanvil Bing of ...

Halachot Ketanot – Hundreds of Notes (Handwritten Composition) – Venice, 1704 – Copy of Rabbi Shmuel Zanvil Bing of Halberstadt and Rabbi Shmuel Zanvil Brandenburg, Rabbi of Strelitz and Dayan in Berlin
Halachot Ketanot, responsa on various topics, two parts, by R. Yaakov Chagiz. Venice, [1704]. First edition.
The margins and endpapers of the book are brimming with hundreds of notes in Ashkenazic script. Some of the notes relate to the contents of the book. A few of them begin with the sharp remarks: "All is nonsense", "This is nonsense" and the like. However, most of the notes are completely unrelated to the contents of the book, and contain ideas on various verses and more. The writer actually made use of the margins of the book as available space to record his novellae, and this book essentially contains a large handwritten composition.
Signatures appear on the title page and on p. 28b of R. Shmuel Zanvil son of R. Eliezer Lieberman Bing - one of the rabbis of the Kloiz in Halberstadt, Germany (d. 1758). The Hazkarat Neshamot booklet of the Kloiz (Yosef Meisel, Reshumot, New Series 3, 1947) extols his virtues: "Master in wisdom yet young in years… swift in study of Torah, sharp and well versed in Talmud and Halacha, unique in his time, toiled and wrote many novellae, for thirty years he resided in the House of G-d – the great Beit HaMidrash…".
The back endpaper contains an ownership inscription: "This book belongs to the great luminary R. Shmuel Zanvil, known as R. Zanvil Brandenburg, who lives here in Strelitz". [R. Shmuel Zanvil Brandenburg was the rabbi of Strelitz and later a dayan in Berlin. See his approbation from 1777 to the book Chukei Chaim (Berlin, 1796), and see: Landshuth, Toldot Anshei HaSheim, p. 85; Meisel, Pinkas Kehilat Berlin, pp. 302, 260].
Some of the notes were possibly handwritten by one or both of these rabbis.
Stamps of R. Moshe Efraim Zuckerman (rabbi in Poznań).
[4], 71, [9] leaves. Leaves 13-14 were bound after leaf 16. 24.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. In many notes, the ink is faded and difficult to read. Old binding, peeling. Worming to back cover. Lacking spine.