Hilchot Rav Alfas, Pressburg, 1836. Anton Schmid printing press. A (imaginary) portrait of Rabbi Yitzchak Alfasi – the Rif.
All eight title pages of the book have signatures of Rabbi Pinchas Zelig Lev who writes that he received the books from his father Rabbi Yirmiyahu Lev Av Beit Din of Újhely. Some title pages are signed by his father Rabbi Yirmiyahu Lev and by his sons and members of Rabbi Pinchas Zelig's family.
Rabbi Yirmiyahu Lev (1811-1874), son of Rabbi Binyamin Wolf Lev author of Sha'arei Torah, one of the leading Torah scholars of Hungary in the days of the Ktav Sofer, served in the rabbinate of Vrbové and Ohel. Wrote Divrei Yirmiyahu on the Rambam, on the Talmud, novellae on Talmudical treatises and homiletics. His son Rabbi Pinchas Zelig Lev (died in 1878), a wealthy Torah scholar and a perfect tzaddik, leading rabbis of his time frequented his home. He died at a young age and left many manuscripts of Torah novellae of halacha and Aggada. (Zichron Elazar, Miskolc 1937, Leaf 67).
4 volumes which contain the eight parts of this elaborate edition, 42 cm. Fancy leather bindings, with impression of the name "Pinchas Zelig Lev".