Seder sheḥiṭot u-vediḳot / ʻim hagahot shel mo.h.R.Y. Ṿail za.l.
סדר שחיטות ובדיקות עם הגהות של מהר"י ווייל ז"ל.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weil, Jacob ben Judah, active 15th century, author.

Contributor:

Ṿelḥ, Shelomoh b. Mosheh, editor.

Aharon b. Daṿid, ha-Levi, editor.

Uri ben Aaron, ha-Levi, 1625-1715, printer.

Elyaḳim ben Avraham, mi-London, 1745-1814, former owner.

Hart, Abraham, active 1734, former owner.

Hart, Naphtaly, former owner.

Phillips, Naphtali, 1773-1870, former owner.

ועלח, שלמה בן משה, עורך.

אהרן בן דוד, הלוי, עורך.

אורי בן וייבש בלא״א אהרן, הלוי, מדפיס., printer.

Language:

Hebrew

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Meat inspection (Jewish law).

Shehitah--Early works to 1800.

Shehitah.

Meat inspection (Jewish law)--Early works to 1800.

Jews--Dietary laws--Early works to 1800.

Jews.

Jews--Dietary laws.

Judaism--Customs and practices.

Judaism.

Responsa--1040-1600.

Responsa.

Penn Provenance:

Fleisher, Beth Maxine (donor) (CJS Rare copy)

Hart, Jacob (autograph)

Hart, Abraham (autograph)

Phillips, Naphtali (autograph)

Hart, Naphtaly (autograph)

Levy, Moses (autograph)

Physical Description:

24 leaves : illustrations ; 19 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Seder bediḳot / ʻim hagahot shel me.h.R.Y. Ṿail za.l.

סדר בדיקות / עם הגהות של מהר"י ווייל ז"ל.

Place of Publication:

Nidpas poh ḳ.ḳ. Zalḳaṿi : bi-defus ha-r.R. Uri Feivish ben mo.ha.r.R. Aharon ha-Levi za.tsa.l., r.ḥ. Elul 464 [31 August 1704]

נדפס פה ק"ק זאלקאווי : בדפוס הרר אורי פייבש בן מהור"ר אהרן הלוי זצ"ל, ר"ח אלול תס"ד לפ"ק

Language Note:

Text in Hebrew, with a portion in Yiddish (leaf 8 verso).

Notes:

There are two title pages, the first with the title "Seder sheḥiṭot u-vediḳot" and the second with the title "Seder bediḳot".

Titles within an architectural border. The printers device of Uri ben Aaron ha-Levi is on the verso of each title page (two fish, and a pitcher pouring water) and a final on the last page. Also found on the upper framing of the title pages.

Text of the halakhic code of R. Jacob Weill is in the upper center of each page in square print, with his commentary surrounding it in smaller print.

Signatures: [1]-[6]⁴.

Title indicates that the editors of the volume were descendants (or relatives) of the printer, Shelomoh b. Mosheh Ṿelḥ (ועלח, or Wolch) and Aharon b. Daṿid ha-Levi.

Illustrations on f. 5 verso are of slaughter knife blades, showing a kosher knife and three types of imperfections on knives. Also shown on f. 16 recto are openings of the Bronchial Tree, using a bold square samekh (ס) turned sidewards.

Local Notes:

CJS copy formerly owned by shoḥṭim (ritual slaughterers) for the Shearith Israel Congregation in New York during the 18th century, and most of the inscriptions date from the 1720s.

CJS copy formerly owned by Jacob Hart (multiple inscriptions in Hebrew and English); inscriptions dated 1719, 1721, 1724, and 1726. Full inscription on front endpaper: "Jacob Hart, his book, anno 1721, of Scheta Badeco, Rabbi Benjamin Elias of the city of New York יעקב הארט".

CJS copy formerly owned by Abraham Hart (inscriptions on endpaper in Hebrew and English). Inscription: "Abraham Hart his book anno 1734, אך אברך 1734 אברהם בר משה \ שלי 1734 אברהם ארת ... באשים אוט ויתמאר".

CJS copy formerly owned by Naphtaly Hart (inscription on back endpapers).

CJS copy formerly owned by Moses Levy, 1734 (inscription on back endpapers).

CJS copy formerly owned by N. Phillips (signature on title page).

CJS copy with an inscription in Yiddish, mostly effaced, indicating that this volume was in New York; inscription approximately 1750.

CJS copy in contemporary marbled boards with leather spine in four compartments. Boards rubbed and foxed. Some folios darkened and stained, some foxed.

CJS copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Beth Maxine Fleisher.

Cited in:

Vinograd, Zolkiew 20

OCLC:

1130236375