A leaf from Tur Yoreh Deah with the Beit Yosef, the laws of terefot. [Venice, 1551-1594].
A gloss in early Ashkenazi handwriting, autograph of Rabbi Aharon Shmuel Koidenover author Tiferet Shmuel [see attached comparison of handwritings]. This gloss was printed with changes in his glosses on the Tur and the Beit Yosef which were printed in his book Tiferet Shmuel (Frankfurt am Main, 1596, Leaf 86/a), and in the edition of the complete Tur of the Shirat Devorah Institute, Yoreh Deah Siman 57.
Rabbi Aharon Shmuel Koidenover (1514-1576), one of the greatest Torah scholars of the later generations, born in Koidenav in Lithuania, disciple of the author of Chelkak Mechokek in Vilna, and disciples of Rabbi Ya'akov of Lublin and his son Rabbi Heshel of Cracow [teachers of the Shach and the Taz]. He was celebrated in all Ashkenasi communities and served in the rabbinate or headed the yeshiva in many important Jewish communities throughout Poland and Germany: Vilna, Brisk, Nikolsburg, Glogau, Fürth, Frankfurt am Main, Cracow etc. Among the books he wrote are Tiferet Shmuel, Birkat Shmuel, Birkat HaZevach and the Emunat Yisrael responsa. His son was Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Koidenover author of Kav HaYashar.
Leaf, 33 cm. Good-fair condition, wear and tear to margins