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Bidding Information
Lot #    10069
Auction End Date    4/19/2005 10:45:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Yad Hayyim
Title (Hebrew)    יד חיים
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Hayyim ben Moses Shak
City    Prague
Publisher    Sons of Moses Bak
Publication Date    1759
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 28 ff., 163:100 mm., light age staining, crisp copy, old hand on title. A very good copy bound in modern tan full calf boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Grammatical work by R. Hayyim ben Moses Shak. Yad Hayyim, subtitled, Yedi‘ot Dikduk. Yad Hayyim is, according to the title page, the general rules of grammar gathered by the author and presented in an abbreviated manner, to be studied with a student. The title page, with a decorative border made up of double rows of florets, is dated, “For ‘She is a tree of life to those who lay hold on her’ כי עץ חיים היא למחזירים (519=1759). There are approbations from R. Ezekiel ben Judah Landau (Noda bi-Yehudah 1713–1793) and R. Meir ben Aaron Rotbaum. On the verso is the author’s introduction, in which he states that he called this work Yad Hayyim because of the Torah which is called Torat Hayyin, “for she is your life” (Proverbs 4:13) and grammar is a handle (yad) for the Torah to understand the roots of the Torah and to expound upon it. The following page has verse with an acrostic that spells Hayyim Shak. The text explains the rules of grammar with numerous examples and explanations in Yiddish set in Vaybertaytsh. At the end of the book is the names of the corrector and typesetters. The corrector was the author’s nephew, Jonah ben Joseph בומסלא, a descendant of the Maharal of Prague.
          
Paragraph 2    ידיעות דקדוק מה שקבץ ... כללי דקדוק בסדר הלמוד עם התלמיד ... מספרי המדקדקים ... ר' חיים בן ... ר' משה שק זללהה שץ ומשמש לעבודת הקדוש בבה"כ החדשה פה פראג (הוגה ... ע"י בן אחותי ... ר' יונה בהאלוף מוהר"ר יוסף בומסלא לנד סופר)...

בעמ' האחרון: וצריכא למודעי שכמה דברים שכתבתי סתם בחבור הזה ... מחקירת ... ר' איצק פרעמסלר נ"ע. הסכמות: ר' יחזקאל סגל לאנדי, פראג, כג סיון תקי"ט; ר' מאיר ב"ר אהרן רוט באם, פילזן, ראש חודש אב תקי"א.

          
Reference
Description		    Vinograd, Prague 885; CD-EPI 0181356
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Bohemia
  
Subject
Other:    Grammar
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica