Tumat Yesharim, anthology of works edited by R. Binyamin Mutal. Venice: Pietro and Lorenzo Bragadin, press of Giovanni Cajon, 1622.
The present book is an anthology comprising four central works and several additional smaller works, printed here for the first time: “Ohalei Tam” – responsa by R. Tam ibn Yachya; Derech Tamim, glosses on the Rif and his commentators by R. Tam ibn Yachya and his son R. Gedaliah ibn Yachya (including glosses by R. Betzalel Ashkenazi, R. Yitzchak Luria, and R. Avraham Treves Tzarfati); Temim De’im, rulings, commentaries and Hasagot on the Rif by R. Avraham ben David of Posquières (the Raavad); Klalei Shmuel by R. Shmuel Sirilio; and Hagahot Sifra copied by the editor R. Binyamin Mutal; and several additional small works.
The editor of the book, R. Binyamin Mutal, was a Torah scholar in Constantinople. He edited and published several additional works.
Ownership inscriptions to front endpaper and verso of title page belonging to R. Avraham Tiktin, signed by his disciple Shmuel HaLevi.
It is not clear whether this R. Avraham Tiktin (referred to by the inscription as “the Gaon Av Beit Din”) is the famous R. Avraham son of Gedaliah Tiktin, Rabbi of Breslau, author of Petach HaBayit and companion of R. Akiva Eiger and R. Yaakov of Lisa, since we do not know of a stay of his in Gröningen, which is mentioned in the ownership inscription, nor do we have information on the author of the inscription, his disciple “Shmuel HaLevi”.
114; 120; 94; 66 leaves. Leaf 88 (misnumbered 47) of the second sequence bound out of place, after leaf 79. 18.5 cm. Most leaves in good-fair condition, four leaves in the middle of the book and the last leaves in fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Heavy traces of past dampness with mold stains on leaves 117-120 of the second sequence (these leaves appear to have been supplied from another copy). The margins of the title page are trimmed on all sides, and the title frame is mounted on other paper. Worming. Worming and small open tears to last leaves, affecting text. Original leather binding, damaged, with a small open tear to spine.
Provenance: Estate of Prof. Ephraim Elimelech Urbach.
PLEASE NOTE: Item descriptions were shortened in translation. For further information, please refer to Hebrew text.
