Sefer Ḳitsur Shene luḥot ha-berit, ʻim Mahadura batra ... / asher izen ṿe-tiḳen ṿe-liḳeṭ ... Yeḥiʼel Mikhel ben Avraham Segal Epśṭayn Ashkenaz.
ספר קיצור שני לוחות הברית עם מהדורא בתרא ... \ אשר איזן ותיקן וליקט ... יחיאל מיכל בן ... אברהם סג"ל עפשטיין אשכנז.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Epstein, Jehiel Michal ben Abraham, ha-Levi, -1706, author.

Contributor:

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

Thur, Moses, active 19th century, associated name, former owner.

Worms, Mayer, -1750, associated name, former owner.

Mosheh Yehudah Leib ben Kalonymus, -1706, writer of approbation.

Oliveyra, Selomoh de, -1708, writer of approbation.

Shabbethai Tzevi, 1626-1676, associated name.

Binyamin Ze'ev Ṿolf, me-ḳ.ḳ. Yaroslav, editor, publisher.

Tsevi Hirsh ben Mosheh, me-Franḳfurṭ de-Oder, publisher.

Tsevi Hirsh ben Avraham, me-Ṿranoḳ, publisher.

Katz, Sheneʼur Zalman, me-Ḳalish, publisher.

Athias, Immanuel, active 17th century, printer.

Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, associated name, donor.

South African Jewish Board of Deputies, associated name.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jewish law.

Jewish ethics.

Cabala.

Genre:

Abridgments.

Physical Description:

[2], 115, [3] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Manufacture:

[Amsterdam] : be-vet ʻEmanuʼel ben Yosef ʻAṭiaś

[אמשטרדם] : בבית עמנו־אל בן יוסף עטיאש

Place of Publication:

Amśṭerdam : Zev Ṿolf [ben] Shemuʼel me-ḳ.ḳ. Yaroslav, Tsevi Hirsh ben ... Mosheh me-Franḳfurṭ de-Oder, ... Tsevi Hirsh ben ... Avraham me-Ṿranoḳ, ... Sheneʼur Zalman Kats me-Ḳalish, [5]461 [1700 November]

אמשטרדם : זאב וואלף [בן] שמואל מק"ק יערסלב, צבי הירש בן ... משה מפרנקפורט דאודר, ... צבי הירש בן ... אברהם מווראנק, ... שניאור זלמן כ"ץ מקאליש, בשנת ולסדר ונתתי לזרעך א'ת' כ'ל' ה'ארצות ה'אל לפ"ק.

Notes:

Third, expanded edition.

With the author's introduction, and his cipher with allusion to his support of Shabbethai Tzevi's messiahship.

Dated Parashat Toledot 5461 (1700 November) -- chronogram on title page.

Publishers -- Binyamin Ze'ev Wolf of Jarosław (who also edited this edition), Tsevi Hirsh ben Mosheh of Frankfurt (Oder), Tsevi Hirsch ben Avraham of Wronki, and Sheneʼur Zalman Katz of Kalisz.

Printed in two columns.

Woodcut head-piece ; type-ornaments.

Approbations : Selomoh de Oliveyra of the Amsterdam Sephardic community ; Mosheh Yehudah Leib ben Kalonymus of the Amsterdam Ashkenazic community ;

Signatures : pi² 29⁴ 30².

Local Notes:

RBC 2027 74 gift of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town ; with the bookplate of the South African Board of Jewish Deputies ; inscriptions in Hebrew, German and French of Mosheh ben Refaʼel Shatz of Niederbronn-les-Bains (in the northern Alsace, north of Strasbourg), then cantor of Hagenbach near Lauterbourg (in Baden-Württemberg near the French border) ; "; הספר הזאת שייך להקטן משה ב"ה רפאל ש"ץ מנידרברון לעת הזאת ש"ץ פה האגנבאך אצל לאודרבורג", and "Moise Thur, chantre a l'Hagenbach / Moses Thur, Vorsänger, Hagenbach bei Kandel, Hagenbach den 1 ten Jenner 1830") ; 18th century Hebrew inscription of Mayer Worms (died 1750 ; grandfather of Aaron Worms, chief rabbi of Metz).

Cited in:

Liberman, Chaim. Disḳusye [Discussion], in : Yivo Bleter, 36 (1952), 305-320, footnote 15

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri, Amsterdam 729

Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 5659 : 9

Fuks, L. Hebrew typography in the Northern Netherlands, 1585-1815, 415

Publications about:

Leiman, S. Sefarim ha-Ḥashudim be-Shabtaʼut : reshimato shel Ha-gaʼon Yaʻavets ze.tsa.l., in Sefer ha-Zikaron le-rabi Mosheh Lifshits (New York, 1996), page 885

Contains:

abridgement of: Horowitz, Isaiah, approximately 1565-1630. Shene luḥot ha-berit.

OCLC:

1241982394