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Lot #    12055
Auction End Date    11/1/2005 11:15:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Divrei David
Title (Hebrew)    דברי דוד
Author    [Only Ed.] R. David ben Raphael Meldola
City    Amsterdam
Publisher    Herz Levi Rofe and his son-in-law Kasmin
Publication Date    1753
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [2], 24, 240 ff., octavo, 190:110 mm., wide margins, light age staining, few minor scattered wormholes. A very good copy bound in later half cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Responsa of R. David ben Raphael Meldola. The title page describes it as, “See, this is new thing” (cf. Ecclesiastes 1:10) such as never was before, seemly and desirable, sharp, to delight the eyes of those who see it. “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver” (cf. Proverbs 25:11). Words of the living God, “right to those who find knowledge, plain to him who understands” (cf. Proverbs 8:9). It is dated, “And the fame of David went out to all ויצא שם דוד בכל )513 = 1753) lands” (I Chronicles 14:17). The title page is followed by a dedication in Portuguese to the parnasim of the Illustre Academia de Hes-Haim, and then several pages of approbations from seven prominent rabbis, versified praise of the book from by I. C. Belinfante, J. Siprut de Gabay, and J. ben Meldola, and the author’s introduction. At the end of several of these is an attractive tail-piece. The text, in two columns in rabbinic type, is comprised of eighty seven responsa followed by an index.

R. David Meldola (1714-1800), although some say he lived to be 105, was the third son of the renowned R. Raphael Meldola. He was born at Leghorn but went with his father to Bayonne, leaving that city in 1735. He then settled in Amsterdam, where he undertook the publication of his father's works, as well as some of his own writings. He was appointed hakam of several of the religious societies and philanthropic organizations. Meldola was the author of: Mo’ed David (Amsterdam, 1740), an astronomical and mathematical work, including a poem giving the rules of the calendar (first published in the ritual work Tefillat Yesharim, ibid. 1740); Darkei Yesod ha-Limmud, on the methodology of the Talmud (ibid. 1754); "Darke David (Amsterdam and Hamburg, 1793-95); and many others works preserved in manuscript. In 1739, he married Rachel Sarphaty (or Sarfatti), daughter of R. Eliashiv Nathanael Sarphaty of Amsterdam and granddaughter of R. Moses Raphael d'Aguilar, by whom he had eight children, born in Amsterdam. His youngest son, Abraham, born 1754, removed to Hamburg in 1772, and was the author of many works, including Traduccion de las Cartos Mercantines y Manuales, (Hamburg, 1784), and(Nova Grammatica Portugueza,(Leipzig, 1785).

          
Paragraph 2    ... אשר אזן חקר ותקן... ר' דוד נר"ו בן... ר' רפאל מילדולה זצוק"ל... שו"ת ופסקי דינים. והוא ראש ישיבה לחברה... משענת זקנים. ומדריך לתמימי דרך... בשנת ו'י'צ'א' ש'ם' ד'ו'ד' ב'כ'ל' הארצות

דף ה,ב-טו: הקדמות ושירים בשבח הספר, מאת ר' יצחק ב"ר אליהו חזקיהו הכהן בלינפאנטי, ר' יוסף שיפרוט די גבאי ור' יעקב ב"ר אברהם מילדולה, שיר על פטירת ר' רפאל מילדולה, אב המחבר, מאת ר' יצחק בלינפאנטי הסכמות: ר' יצחק חיים ן' דנא די בריטו, אמשטרדם, ה אלול תקי"ב; ר' ארי' ליב [ב"ר שאול], אמשטרדם, ב אלול תקי"ב; ר' יעקב יושע [ב"ר צבי הירש] אב"ד פרנקפורט, וורימזא [!], כב כסליו תקי"ג; ר' שמואל הילמן, מיץ, יא אדר תקי"ג; ר' שאול [ב"ר יצחק] הלוי, האג, כא אלול תקי"ב; ר' ישראל בנימין ב"ר ישעיהו באסאן, ריג'ייו, ה מרחשון תקי"ג; ר' משה מרגלית מקודאן, אמשטרדם, ראש-חודש אדר-ב תקי"ג.

          
Reference
Description		    JE; Vin Amsterdam 1669; CD-EPI 0147870
        
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Listing Classification
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18th Century:    Checked
  
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Holland:    Checked
  
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First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
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