Auction 8 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Apei Ravrevei, Feurda, 1726 – Copy of the Corrections Signed by the Publisher Rabbi Shmuel Bonept Shneuri
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Apei Ravrevei – Shulchan Aruch Even Ha'ezer with Chelkat Mechokek and Beit Shmuel. Feurda, 1726.
On the head of the title-page: 1726, Shmuel Boneft Shneur of Feu[rda].
Over 160 glosses and corrections in handwriting, [some cropped]: scholarly glosses, references, erasings and corrections, moving letters to their places and pagination corrections.
The first edition of Shulchan Aruch Even Ha'-ezer printed with both of the two major commentators, Beit Shmuel and Chelkat Mechokek. This edition was reviewed by the great Rabbis of Feurda, and became the basis for all later editions. Even the mistakes in this edition, minor and major, became part of most of the later editions of Even Haezer. [For example: see omissions in chapter 51-52, sub-chapter 141].
The publisher, Rabbi Shmuel Boneft ben Rabbi Yosef Shneur [Shneuri], disciple of Rabbi Moshe Katzenelbogen, rabbi of Ansbach region. He published books in Feurda during 1724-1728 [Ashlei Ravrevei, Tapuchei Zahav, NAchalat Shiva and more]. He died in 1728, and in the last book published by his publishing-house, Em Hayeled Vichinuch Hakatan, he is refered to as "the deceased".
It seems that the copy we have is a copy which he prepared for a second edition, but he did not merit to publish it, and he died at a young age in 1728.
From a partial examination, it is evident that many of the corrections n this draft were not admitted in following editions, even the Lemberg edition (Balaban Print, photocopied in most of the new editions) was almost completely copied from this edition. According to a comparison made with the edition of the Rosh Pina Institute, it was found that some of the corrections were made in the name of later commentators, who made the corrections based on their own opinion, and some are not corrected even in this version.
The personal copy of the publisher which was recently discovered, has not yet been used in any of the latest editions of the Shulchan Aruch.
[2], 192 leaves. (Leaf 112 is double, and also the gloss on it was written twice), 33 cm. Good condition, some of the leaves are detached from the binding, red cutting of pages, worn and torn leather binding.
On the head of the title-page: 1726, Shmuel Boneft Shneur of Feu[rda].
Over 160 glosses and corrections in handwriting, [some cropped]: scholarly glosses, references, erasings and corrections, moving letters to their places and pagination corrections.
The first edition of Shulchan Aruch Even Ha'-ezer printed with both of the two major commentators, Beit Shmuel and Chelkat Mechokek. This edition was reviewed by the great Rabbis of Feurda, and became the basis for all later editions. Even the mistakes in this edition, minor and major, became part of most of the later editions of Even Haezer. [For example: see omissions in chapter 51-52, sub-chapter 141].
The publisher, Rabbi Shmuel Boneft ben Rabbi Yosef Shneur [Shneuri], disciple of Rabbi Moshe Katzenelbogen, rabbi of Ansbach region. He published books in Feurda during 1724-1728 [Ashlei Ravrevei, Tapuchei Zahav, NAchalat Shiva and more]. He died in 1728, and in the last book published by his publishing-house, Em Hayeled Vichinuch Hakatan, he is refered to as "the deceased".
It seems that the copy we have is a copy which he prepared for a second edition, but he did not merit to publish it, and he died at a young age in 1728.
From a partial examination, it is evident that many of the corrections n this draft were not admitted in following editions, even the Lemberg edition (Balaban Print, photocopied in most of the new editions) was almost completely copied from this edition. According to a comparison made with the edition of the Rosh Pina Institute, it was found that some of the corrections were made in the name of later commentators, who made the corrections based on their own opinion, and some are not corrected even in this version.
The personal copy of the publisher which was recently discovered, has not yet been used in any of the latest editions of the Shulchan Aruch.
[2], 192 leaves. (Leaf 112 is double, and also the gloss on it was written twice), 33 cm. Good condition, some of the leaves are detached from the binding, red cutting of pages, worn and torn leather binding.
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