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Kitzur Shnei Luchot HaBrit – Zhitomir, 1854 – Rare Complete Copy

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Kitzur Shnei Luchot HaBrit, summary of R. Yeshayah HaLevi Horowitz's Shnei Luchot HaBrit (Shlah), with Mahadura Batra, by R. Yechiel Michel Segal Epstein. Zhitomir: R. Aryeh Leib Shapiro, grandson of the Rabbi of Slavita, 1854.
Bound at end: Sefer HaYashar, attributed to Rabbeinu Tam. Lviv: Avraham Yehoshua Heshel Drocker, 1869.

Kitzur Shnei Luchot HaBrit: 152 pages. Sefer HaYashar: [25] leaves. 20 cm. Greenish paper. Title page of Kitzur Shnei Luchut HaBrit and several other leaves in fair condition, most leaves in good-fair condition. Stains. Wear. Tears and open tears, on title page and other leaves, affecting title frame and slightly affecting text on several leaves, repaired with paper to title page. Close trimming, slightly affecting text. Stamps. Last leaf of second book detached. Old binding, damaged.

The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book records an incomplete copy ending on p. 148 (the copy in the NLI catalog is also lacking several leaves). The present book is a complete copy.