Sefer Ezor ʼEliyahu : ... u-miḳtsat Sefer Ḳorban Eliyahu ṭaʻame ha-mitsṿot ... / meʼet ... ʼEliyahu ha-Kohen ha-Itamari ...
ספר אזור אליהו : ... ומקצת ספר קרבן אליהו טעמי המצות ... מאת ... אליהו הכהן האתמרי ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elijah ben Solomon Abraham, ha-Kohen, of Smyrna, approximately 1650-1729, author.

Contributor:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Katzman, Eliezer, former owner.

Ḥakim, Shemuʼel, writer of forward.

Abulafya, Yaʻaḳov, publisher.

Ashkenazi, Saadi ha-Levi, 1819-1903, printer.

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

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Mishnah. Avot--Commentaries.

Mishnah.

Haggadah--Commentaries.

Haggadah.

Commandments, Six hundred and thirteen.

Aggada--Commentaries.

Aggada.

Physical Description:

[2], 96, 12 leaves ; 21 cm

Manufacture:

Nidpas poh Śaloniḳe : Nidpas ba-defus ... Saʻady ha-Leṿi Ashkenazi

נדפס פה שאלוניקי : נדפס בדפוס ... סעדי הלוי אשכנזי

Place of Publication:

[Thessalonikē, Greece] : Yaʻaḳov Abulafya, [5]606 [1845 or 1846]

שאלוניקי : יעקב אבולעפיא, שנת ו'מ'ת'ו'ק'י'ם' ד'בש ונופת צו[פים] לפ"ק

Notes:

Title page printed inside a type-ornament border. Reigning monarch mentioned on title page - Abdul Mejid I, Sultan of the Turks.

Introduction by Shemuʼel Ḥakim, rabbi in Izmir, with mention of supporting individuals including Estrella Abulafya, daughter of the publisher.

Includes commentary on selected Aggadot; a commentary on Mishnah, Avot; a commentary on the Passover Haggadah (with the caption title Hagadat Eliyahu); final section is on Ṭaʻame ha-mitsṿot (reasons for the Biblical commandments, organized by Parshayot), with the caption title Ḳorban Eliyahu.

Index follows text.

Colophon mentions the Izmir fire of 1841 (and that more of the manuscript was lost in this fire; "ויהי אחרי כן בשריפה הגדולה אשר היה באיזמיר ... נשרף שאר החיבור ולא חפ"ץ").

Local Notes:

Kislak RBC 2026 115 rebound; inscribed (pen tests on first and last pages (with the name Hai Maimon visible), with a manuscript page of a financial document in Hebrew pasted in at the end of the book). Purchased from Jacob Djmal, 2025 (acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund); formerly owned by collector Eliezer Katzman.

Cited in:

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri, Salonica 796

Contains:

Elijah ben Solomon Abraham, ha-Kohen, of Smyrna, approximately 1650-1729. Hagadat Eliyahu.

Elijah ben Solomon Abraham, ha-Kohen, of Smyrna, approximately 1650-1729. Ḳorban Eliyahu.

OCLC:

1586280882

Online:

The Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund Home Page