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Lot #    10930
Auction End Date    7/12/2005 12:09:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Avodat ha-Levi
Title (Hebrew)    עבודת הלוי
Author    R. Solomon b. Eliezer ha-Levi
City    Venice
Publisher    Marco Antonio Guistianni
Publication Date    1546
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Second edition. 28 ff., 196:142 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in later half vellum boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Solomon b. Eliezer ha-Levi (c. 1497-1516), Turkish Talmudist, brother of R. Abraham b. Eliezer ha-Levi, who quotes him in his Ma'amar ha-Yihud. R. Solomon was the author of Moreh Zedek, or Avodat ha-Levi (Constantinople, 1516), a treatise on the 613 commandments, indicating the passages of the Talmud, Sifra, Sifre, Mekilta, Maimonides' Yad, and later rabbinical literature in which they are treated. According to Shabbethai Bass (Sifte Yeshenim, s.v. Moreh Zedek), the first part is entitled Moreh Zedek, and the second part Avodat ha-Levi. R. Solomon states, in the introduction, that he composed this work when he was still very young. Confusing R. Solomon's brother, mentioned above, with R. Abraham ha-Levi of Adrianople, R. Solomon Athias (preface to his commentary on Psalms) credits the latter with the authorship of the Avodat ha-Levi.

Marco Antonio Giustiniani was a Christian printer of Hebrew books in Venice in the 16th century. His master printer Cornelius Adelkind printed a fine edition of the Babylonian Talmud (1546–51). Soon, this very active press faced a formidable competitor in the house of Bragadini which issued Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, with the notes of R. Meir Katzenellenbogen. Giustiniani then printed the full text of that code without R. Meir's notes. The mutual recriminations that the rivals engaged in at the Papal Court ultimately resulted in the confiscation and burning of all Hebrew books (1553).

          
Paragraph 2    והוא מורה צדק מהמצות ...

על-פי ההוצאה הראשונה, [קושטאנדינה רע"ה בערך]. תוקנו טעויות-הדפוס שציין שם המחבר בסוף הספר. שורות הפתיחה לטעויות-הדפוס, שנדפסו שם ("אמר המחבר ..."), נדפסו גם כאן. תאריך הקולופון: יום ו ה שבט ש"ו.

          
Reference
Description		    Benjacob, Otzar ha-Sefarim, pp. 310 (No. 814), 428 (No. 26); Fürst, Bibl. Jud. iii. 224; CD-EPI 0170464; JE
        
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16th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
  
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
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Kind of Judaica