sefer Yeriot Izzim
By R. Simeon bar Samuel of Jerusalem
In Hebrew. 79 pages. 201 x 143 mm. Bound in vellum Latin manuscript segment of a Breviarum Romanum (The Roman Breviary), the liturgical book of the Latin liturgical rites of the Catholic Church containing the public or canonical prayers, hymns, the Psalms, readings, and notations for everyday use, especially by bishops, priests, and deacons in the Divine Office (i.e., at the canonical hours or Liturgy of the Hours, the Christians' daily prayer). The Hebrew book here is the only edition of this versified enumeration of the taryag (613) mitzvot by R. Simeon bar Samuel of Jerusalem. The title page has the di Gara architectural frame and informs that it includes all the precepts of the Torah, both positive and negative. It was written in versified form by, ¿the son of a brave man, who had done many act¿ (I Chronicles 11:22), R. Simeon bar Samuel of Jerusalem. It praises R. Simeon Levi Guenzberg, who found this desirable manuscript and brought it to press in order to benefit the public. It is dated, ¿an overflowing blessing BRACHA AD BLI DAIY (357 = 1597)¿ (Malachi 3:10). The verso of the title page has R. Simeon Levi Guenzberg¿s introduction where he refers to the troubles he encountered earlier in printing a mahzor with R. Isaac Mazia but does not provide details. What occurred, not noted here, was that while printing a mahzor in Thannhausen (1594) the authorities were informed that a Hebrew press in their midst was printing works inimical to Christianity. They imprisoned Mazia, who, after prolonged pleading, was granted bail against a high surety and the Jewish oath to the court. He intrepidly requested from the court that he be allowed to complete the mahzor (concerning the mahzor see Heller, 16th Cent. II). Guenzburg and the two non-Jewish printers were able to escape. In August, 1597, Mazia was fined 200 florin and released. Guenzberg relates that he found this old manuscript from 1383, written on parchment. It was he that entitled it Yeriot Izzim (¿curtains of goats¿ hair,¿ Exodus 26:7) for as the Lord concealed from us and did not inform us and I too did not know about the author, so too as the curtains covered the Tabernacle. Also, as did the Rokeah whose name is implied by a gematria, here too, Yeriot is gematria for Simeon. After Guenzburg¿s introduction is verse in praise of the book by R. Judah Aryeh (Leone) Modena, and then the text. Yeriot Izzim, set in two columns in square letters, with enlarged initial letters. It is organized by subject matter, beginning with hilkhot Kiddushion, Shabbat, etc. Printed with the text in a rabbinic font, as inserts, are glosses, by R. Abraham ben Samuel Temlin.
Published by: Giovanni di Gara, Venice, 1597
Vendor: Meir Turner
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By R. Simeon bar Samuel of Jerusalem
In Hebrew. 79 pages. 201 x 143 mm. Bound in vellum Latin manuscript segment of a Breviarum Romanum (The Roman Breviary), the liturgical book of the Latin liturgical rites of the Catholic Church containing the public or canonical prayers, hymns, the Psalms, readings, and notations for everyday use, especially by bishops, priests, and deacons in the Divine Office (i.e., at the canonical hours or Liturgy of the Hours, the Christians' daily prayer). The Hebrew book here is the only edition of this versified enumeration of the taryag (613) mitzvot by R. Simeon bar Samuel of Jerusalem. The title page has the di Gara architectural frame and informs that it includes all the precepts of the Torah, both positive and negative. It was written in versified form by, ¿the son of a brave man, who had done many act¿ (I Chronicles 11:22), R. Simeon bar Samuel of Jerusalem. It praises R. Simeon Levi Guenzberg, who found this desirable manuscript and brought it to press in order to benefit the public. It is dated, ¿an overflowing blessing BRACHA AD BLI DAIY (357 = 1597)¿ (Malachi 3:10). The verso of the title page has R. Simeon Levi Guenzberg¿s introduction where he refers to the troubles he encountered earlier in printing a mahzor with R. Isaac Mazia but does not provide details. What occurred, not noted here, was that while printing a mahzor in Thannhausen (1594) the authorities were informed that a Hebrew press in their midst was printing works inimical to Christianity. They imprisoned Mazia, who, after prolonged pleading, was granted bail against a high surety and the Jewish oath to the court. He intrepidly requested from the court that he be allowed to complete the mahzor (concerning the mahzor see Heller, 16th Cent. II). Guenzburg and the two non-Jewish printers were able to escape. In August, 1597, Mazia was fined 200 florin and released. Guenzberg relates that he found this old manuscript from 1383, written on parchment. It was he that entitled it Yeriot Izzim (¿curtains of goats¿ hair,¿ Exodus 26:7) for as the Lord concealed from us and did not inform us and I too did not know about the author, so too as the curtains covered the Tabernacle. Also, as did the Rokeah whose name is implied by a gematria, here too, Yeriot is gematria for Simeon. After Guenzburg¿s introduction is verse in praise of the book by R. Judah Aryeh (Leone) Modena, and then the text. Yeriot Izzim, set in two columns in square letters, with enlarged initial letters. It is organized by subject matter, beginning with hilkhot Kiddushion, Shabbat, etc. Printed with the text in a rabbinic font, as inserts, are glosses, by R. Abraham ben Samuel Temlin.
Published by: Giovanni di Gara, Venice, 1597
Vendor: Meir Turner
