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Lot #    21553
Auction End Date    10/7/2008 10:25:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Abudarham
Title (Hebrew)    אבודרהם
Author    R. David b. Joseph Abudarham
City    Venice
Publisher    Marco Antonio Giustiniani
Publication Date    1546
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    86 ff., 261:194 mm., light age and damp staining, wide margins, foxing stains neatly repaired. A good copy bound in modern boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. David b. Joseph Abudarham (14th century), liturgical commentator in Spain. Abudarham came from a distinguished family, and apparently an earlier namesake was a communal leader in Toledo. Abudarham was moved to write his book in 1340 in Seville, like R. Asher b. Saul of Lunel before him, because “the customs connected with prayer have become varied from one country to another, and most of the people do not understand the words of the prayers, nor do they know the correct ritual procedures and the reasons for them.” The book is based on the Talmud and the decisions of the geonim, and on the early and later commentators. It abounds in source material of Spanish, Provencal, French, and Ashkenazi origins, not all of which has otherwise survived. Abudarham made extensive use of the prayer book of R. Saadiah Gaon, and it seems he was the last to see and use an original of this book. He also utilized the Manhig of R. Abraham b. Nathan ha-Yarhi of Lunel and the Minhagot of R. Asher b. Saul, the legal dicta of R. Asher b. Jehiel and the Turim. Some scholars think he was a disciple of R. Jacob b. Asher, author of the Turim. Abudarham commented upon the prayers in great detail and traced the variations in custom in different countries. He included a commentary on the Passover Haggadah, rules of intercalation, the order of weekly pentateuchal readings and haftarot for the entire year, and calendrical and astronomical tables. Abudarham appended to his book rules governing benedictions, dividing them into nine sections, along with their interpretation and explanation. His book was first published in Lisbon in 1490 and has since been republished frequently. Abudarham also wrote a commentary on liturgy for the Day of Atonement ascribed to R. Yose b. Yose, as well as on other liturgical poems (published under the title of Tashlum Abudarham).

Marco Antonio Giustiniani , (fl. 16th century), printer of Hebrew books in Venice, Venetian patrician. His master printer Cornelius Adelkind printed a fine edition of the Babylonian Talmud (1546–51). Soon, this very active press faced a formidable competitor in the house of Bragadini which issued Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, with the notes of Meir Katzenellenbogen. Giustiniani then printed the full text of that code without R. Meir's notes. The mutual recriminations that the rivals engaged in at the Papal Court ultimately resulted in the confiscation and burning of all Hebrew books (1553).
          
Paragraph 2    אותיות רש"י. שני טורים בעמוד. קולופון: תם ונשלם ... ספר אבודרהם היום יום ב ר"ח מרחשון ש"ז לפ"ק, פה ויניציאה.
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0105182; EJ; JE
        
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Period
16th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
  
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
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