DURAN, SHIMON B”R TZEMACH
(TaSHBe”TZ.) Tiph’ereth Yisrael / Megilath Sepher / Ma’amar Se’udath Mitzvah [on ...

DURAN, SHIMON B”R TZEMACH
(TaSHBe”TZ.) Tiph’ereth Yisrael / Megilath Sepher / Ma’amar Se’udath Mitzvah [on the Book of Esther and holiday of Purim]


FIRST EDITION. Title and first word of text within highly wrought typographical border. The ABRAHAM JOSEPH SOLOMON GRAZIANO (“Ish Ger”) COPY, with his signatures on title and first leaf.
ff. 212. Few leaves supplied from another copy, light staining, stamp on title, trace marginal worming. Modern calf. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 768.
Venice: Daniel Zanetti (c.1591-1596)
Abraham Joseph Solomon Graziano “Ish-Ger” (d. 1684), the Rabbi of Modena, was a noted halachic scholar, bibliophile and poet. He earned the ire of some of his contemporaries for his liberal Halakhic decisions. See S. Baron, "Teshuvah…me-eth R. Abraham Graziano" in Studies in Memory of A.S. Freidus (1929) pp. 122-37; A. J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress, pp. 155-6).
Abraham Joseph Solomon Graziano “Ish-Ger” (d. 1684), the Rabbi of Modena, was a noted halachic scholar, bibliophile and poet. He earned the ire of some of his contemporaries for his liberal Halakhic decisions. See S. Baron, "Teshuvah…me-eth R. Abraham Graziano" in Studies in Memory of A.S. Freidus (1929) pp. 122-37; A. J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress, pp. 155-6).