Sefer Shaʻar Efrayim / she-ḥiber ha-rav ... Efrayim Ṿerṭaym be[n] ha-torani ... Naftali Tsevi ... dayana de-ḳ.ḳ. Reishe.
שער אפרים ... שחיבר הרב ... אפרים ווערטהיים בן התורני ... נפתלי צבי ... דיינא דק"ק ריישא.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wertheim, Ephraim ben Naphtali, of Rzeszów, active 18th century, author.

Reischer, Jacob ben Joseph, approximately 1670-1733, author of afterword, colophon, etc.

Contributor:

Rare Judaica Acquisitions Fund.

Katz, Aaron ben Elya, printer.

Library at the Katz Center Special Collections (University of Pennsylvania)

רישר, יעקב בן יוסף

כץ, אהרן בן אליה.

Language:

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Medicine--18th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Medicine.

Cabala--18th century--Texts.

Cabala.

Symbolism in medicine--18th century--Identification.

Symbolism in medicine.

Physical Description:

[2], 23 leaves : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)

Edition:

Hu-va le-bet ha-defus paʻam shenit, ṿe-hosif ʻal ha-rishonim [that is, second, expanded edition].

הובא לבית הדפוס פעם שנית, והוסיף על הראשונים

Manufacture:

Nidpas poh ḳ.ḳ. Altona, taḥat memshelet adonenu ha-melekh ... Ḳrisṭyanus Ha-shishi yar.h. ... : Bi-defus ha-naʻaleh r. Aharon ben Ely. Kats z.ts.l., [5496, that is, 1735 or 1736]

נדפס פה ק"ק אלטונא, תחת ממשלת אדוננו המלך ... קריסטיינוס הששי יר"ה ... : בדפוס הנעלה ר' אהרן בן אלי' כץ זצ"ל, לסדר ולפרט וכל אשר תת'ן' ל'י' עשר אעשרנו' לך

Language Note:

Text in Yiddish, with the responsa and novellae portions in Hebrew.

Notes:

Ephraim Wertheim's medical manual composed chiefly with remedies and cures from practical Cabala.

This edition printed with the text of responsa by Jacob Reischer, and novellae by the author on selections from the Aggadot.

Approbations from Phoebus, rabbi of Witzenhausen; Aaron Katz of Warburg-Paderborn and Lippe; and the physician Moses Kleve, Hamburg.

Reigning monarch mentioned in imprint -- Christian August von Anhalt-Zerbst (1690-1747).

Signatures: [pi]² [alif]-[bet]² [daled]-[yod alif]² [2yod alif [that is, yod bet]]² (gathering [gimel] cancelled? ; final bifolium mistakenly [yod alif / alif] ; likely [yod bet]²).

Title page with woodblock Hebrew printed charachters ("ספר"); printer's device (basket holding fruits) -- title page; type-ornaments; tail-pieces. Printed in two columns.

Final page with a glossary of current medical symbols, used in vernacular texts -- "אלונדרט וועלין מיר שרייבן הסיאנס דען אפטיקרש דש די רופאים רעלעפטין שריינן כדי איטליכר ניט פרשטין זאל" -- l. [yod bet]2.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rare Judaica Acquisitions Fund.

CAJS Rare copy complete; bound in dark buckram; spine missing. Early printed waste (Yiddish language material, possibly from leaves of this imprint) on first and last leaves.

CAJS Rare copy purchased from Kestenbaum & Co. (New York), Auction 73 (June 22, 2017) lot 186.

CAJS Rare copy with manuscript leaf pasted between l. [het]2 / [tet]1; written in an Ashkenazic cursive script (the text is for a physician to assist patients with onset menstruation; "להביא ד"נ | קח לפנ' א' או כל כל שמן הנקרא ראזען מאריען וייל וקודם ..."; possibly written by the author as an addition to the printed text.

Cited in:

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-Sefer ha-'Ivri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Altona 28

OCLC:

19137843