Responsa Besamim Rosh, responsa in Halachic law attributed to the Rosh and "other Rishonim", with commentary, by Rabbi Saul Berlin. Berlin, [1793]. First edition.
Owners' signatures: "Moshe Chanina Lipmann Meizlish, Rabbi of Piotrkow ". "Yonah Landau of Czestochowa ".
Ink stamps of Rabbi "Zalman Sorotzkin, Rabbi of Lutsk" [President of Mo'etzet Gedolei HaTorah (World Rabbinic Council)], and "Rabbi Yisrael Meir Freimann, Rabbi of Ostrava".
The book "Besamim Rosh" was the focal point of a raging polemic: Rabbi Mordechai Benet, the Chatham Sofer and others, claimed that the book was a forgery and that these responsa were not the fruit of the Rosh's pen, but of the publisher's, Rabbi Saul Berlin. The authenticity of the book remains unclear until today.
[4], 110, [5] leaves. 32 cm. Good condition. The two front pages and the margins are creased and torn. Moth damage. Stains.
From Dr. Israel Mehlman's private collection.