Ḥaṿot Yaʼir : Ḥelek rishon ; teshuvot ḥashuvot ... / ke.mo.ha-r. Yaʼir Ḥayim ben ha-gaʼon ha-ḥasid ke.mo.ha-r. Mosheh Shimshon z.ts.l., a.be.d. ṿe-r.m. de-ḳ.ḳ. Ṿirmayśa.
חוות יאיר : חלק ראשון ; תשובות חשובות ... כמוהר"ר יאיר חיים בן הגאון החסיד כמוהר"ר משה שמשון אב"ד ור"מ דק"ק ווירמיישא.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bacharach, Jair Ḥayyim ben Moses Samson, 1638-1702, author.

Contributor:

Wust, Johann, active 17th century-18th century, printer.

Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Responsa--1600-1800.

Responsa.

Genre:

Consilia.

Penn Provenance:

Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research (donor) (Kislak Center copy)

Tietz, Eliyahu Hirsch Ullman (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)

Bart, Naftali Hertska (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)

Annenberg Research Institute (stamp) (CJS Rare copy)

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate) (CJS Rare copy)

Lehmann, Issachar Behrend (1661-1730) (inscription) (CJS Rare copy)

Oppenheim, David ben Abraham (1664-1736) (inscription) (CJS Rare copy)

Physical Description:

[4], 276 leaves [that is, [8], 552] pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Edition:

[first edition].

Manufacture:

Nidpas be-Ṿrankfurt de-Mein hame-hulalah ... : Bi-defus ha-meshubaḥ shel Yohanis Ṿausṭ, [6 Adar 5459, that is, 5 February 1699]

נדפס בורנקפורט דמיין המהוללה... : בדפוס המשובח של יהניס וואוסט, בשנת בקום ל'מ'ש'פ'ט' אלהים להושיע כל ענוי ארץ סלה [ו' אדר תנ"ט]

Notes:

Title page printed inside a woodcut decorative frame (angels, wreaths, grape clusters).

Edition from Steinschneider.

Date from chronogram -- title page.

Introduction by the author, followed by approbations -- Yosef Shemuʼel of Kraków, then in Frankfurt am Main; Gabriel ben Judah Löw Eskeles of Kraków, then in Metz; David Oppenheim of Prague, then in Nikolsburg (Mikulov); Samson Wertheimer in Vienna; Naftali Hertz Bacharach; laudatory verse by Samuel ben Joseph Schotten in Darmstadt.

Printing completed on Thursday, 6 Adar [I] 5499 (5 February 5459); printing financed by Mendel and Wolff, sons of Samson Wertheimer of Vienna; typeset by Christian Nikolai -- final page, verso.

Printed with the author's introduction to his Meḳor ḥayim, with approbations, beginning on leaf [nun ḥet]Mmm[2] recto.

Woodcut tailpiece.

Signatures: [parenthesis]⁴ [alif]A-[khaf gimel]Z⁴ [khaf daled]Aa-[mem ṿaṿ]Zz⁴ [mem zayin]Aaa-[samekh ṭet]⁴.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gift of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town.

Kislak copy bound in 18th century decorated paper over boards, with a leather spine with four raised bands; "חות יאיר" written on spine, with a 19th century paper shelfmark pasted below on lower spine ("296.57 חות יאיר" written in pen on shelfmark).

Kislak copy formerly owned by Eliyahu Hirsch Ullman Tietz from Gera, Germany (inscription on title page, circa 1800: "שייך למהור"ר אלי' הירש אולמן טיץ מגירא").

Kislak copy formerly owned by Naftali Hertska Bart (or Bord, possibly Barthe or Barth; inscription, front paste-down: "לעלת"מ הק' נפתלי הירצקר בארד", circa 1750.

Kislak copy missing final page -- l. [samekh ṭet][four].

CJS Rare copy bound in blue buckram binding; stamped on binding: "BACHARACH חות יאיר חלק ראשון 15 בורנקפורט דמיין תנ"ט"; endpapers circa 20th century.

CJS Rare copy title page partially missing, replaced with white paper.

CJS Rare copy formerly owned by Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate); Annenberg Research Institute (stamp).

CJS Rare copy gifted by David Oppenheim, Chief Rabbi of Bohemia, to Issachar Behrend (Behrend Lehmann (1661-1730) upon his wedding day (inscription, final leaf verso: "זה החות יאיר שלי במתנה מן הגאון מהור"ר דוד אופנהיים אב"ד על המדינות פיהם יצו דורן דרשה שלו על חתונה שלי יששכר בארנד"; Behrend Lehmann married his second wife, Hannle Beer, daughter of Mendel Beer, in Frankfurt in 1707, thence dating and placing this inscription).

Cited in:

Vinograd, Y., Otsar ha-Sefer ha-'Ivri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Frankfurt A.M. 152

Steinschneider, M., Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana 4676 : 3

Friedberg Ḥet, 380.

Benjacob Ḥet, 88.

OCLC:

22753696