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Bidding Information
Lot #    10007
Auction End Date    3/22/2005 4:15:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Porat Yosef
Title (Hebrew)    פרת יוסף
Author    [First Ed.] R. Joseph Yessel ben Dov Ba’er
City    Jessnitz
Publisher    Israel ben Abraham
Publication Date    1727
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [2], 38 ff., 180:150 mm., wide margins, light age and damp staining, old hands on all fly ff. A very good copy bound in contemporary half leather and marbled paper boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Homilies on the Torah, five Megillot, and novellae by R. Joseph Yessel ben Dov Ba’er. The author was from Brisk Lita and served as av bet din in Vienna Joseph Yessel ben Dov Ba’er. His grandfather, R. Joshua, was av bet din in Crakow. The title page is dated from the verse, “And of Joseph he said, Blessed [f the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that couches beneath]” (Deuteronomy 33:13). There is an approbation from R. Ezekiel of the house of Katzenelbogen, followed by the author’s introduction and then the text, which is in two columns in rabbinic type, excepting intial words and headers. There are ornamental woodcuts after the approbation and before the introduction and the text. The style of Porat Yosef is sharp rather than discursive.

The title page has a pillared frame, topped by an obelisk. This frame was first used by the court Jew, Moses Benjamin Wulff, in Dessau. After Wulff ceased to print his typographical material, including this frame, was Israel ben Abraham in Wandsbeck, Koethen, and Jessnitz.
          
Paragraph 2    ... על חומשי תורה ועל חמש מגילות ועל ההגדה ועל איזה מסכתת מש"ס על פירש רש"י ותוספות חברו הרב ... ר' יוסף יעסל מבריסק דליטא אשר היה אב"ד ור"מ בק"ק וואיין ... נכד ... ר' יהושע ... שהיה אב"ד בק"ק קראקא ...

הסכמה: ר' יחזקאל בית קצנלאבוגין, אלטונה המבורג וואנזבעק, ג סיון תפ"ז.

          
Reference
Description		    Vin Wandsbeck 14; CD-EPI 0135644
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
Homiletics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica