A leaf of Tur Yoreh De'ah with Beit Yosef, laws of Treifot. [Venice, 16th century].
Note in early Ashkenazic handwriting, presumably an autograph of the prominent Torah scholar R. Aharon Shmuel Koidanover, author of Tiferet Shmuel. This note appears with variations amongst his notes to Tur and Beit Yosef, printed in Tiferet Shmuel (Frankfurt am Main, 1696, p. 86a), and in the Tur HaShalem edition of the Shirat Devorah Institute, Yoreh De'ah section 57.
R. Aharon Shmuel Koidanover (1614-1676) was a foremost Acharon, a leading Torah scholar of his times. Born in Koidanov (Dzyarzhynsk) in Lithuania, he was a disciple of the Chelkat Mechokek of Vilna, R. Yaakov of Lublin and his son Rebbe Heschel of Krakow (teachers of the Taz and the Shach). He was famous in all German communities and served in the rabbinate or as dean of the Yeshiva in many important Jewish communities of Poland and Germany: Vilna, Brisk (Brest), Nikolsburg (Mikulov), Głogów, Fürth, Frankfurt am Main, Krakow and more. He composed Tiferet Shmuel, Birkat Shmuel, Birkat HaZevach, Responsa Emunat Yisrael and more. His son was R. Tzvi Hirsh Koidanover author of Kav HaYashar.
[1] leaf. 33 cm. Good-fair condition, wear and tears to the margins.