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Lot #    22921
Auction End Date    3/3/2009 11:05:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Darkhei ha-Gemarah (Darkhei ha-Talmud)
Title (Hebrew)    דרכי הגמרא
Author    R. Isaac Campanton
City    Mantua
Publisher    Thomas Rufnalli
Publication Date    1593
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    12 ff., 8 vo., 195:138 mm., usual age staining, wide margins. A good copy bound in modern full leather over boards, tooled in blind.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Isaac b. Jacob Campanton (1360–1463), Castilian rabbi. R. Isaac was the head of a yeshivah in Zamora in west Spain, among whose students were R. Isaac de Leon, R. Isaac Aboab II, R. Samuel b. Abraham Valensi, and R. Shem Tov ibn Shem Tov. He laid down methodological rules for the study of the Talmud which had a profound influence. These he summarized in his Darkhei ha-Talmud (called Darkhei ha-Gemara in the Mantua edition of 1593). In this work he departs from the method of previous writers on talmudic methodology, who had merely laid down talmudic rules. R. Isaac systematically and logically explained the proper method of studying the text, and the pedagogical principles to be employed in that study. He was also the first to lay down methodological rules for the study of the rishonim. His system was transmitted by his students to R. Jacob Berab, who introduced it into his yeshivah in Safed. R. Samuel ibn Sid the pupil of R. Isaac de Leon also describes at length in his Kelalei Shemuel the method of study at the yeshivah as laid down by R. Isaac Canpanton. A Darkhei ha-Talmud was first published in Constantinople, 1515–20?; a more complete edition was published in Venice in 1565. R. Isaac also took an active part in communal affairs. In 1450, after the death of Don Abraham Benveniste, he became a member of the committee, along with R. Joseph ibn Shem Tov, the well-known philosopher, and R. Joseph b. Abraham Benveniste, appointed to apportion taxation among the Jews of Castile. He died in Penafiel after undergoing considerable hardships. He appears to have engaged in the study of Kabbalah and miraculous deeds were attributed to him. His kabbalistic doctrine was circulated by his disciples and, in turn, by their disciples. R. Isaac was greatly admired by his contemporaries, both on account of his personality and as a teacher, and he is widely quoted by them in their works on talmudic methodology. The Darkhei ha-Talmud, however, is his only extant work.
          
Paragraph 2    ... נדפס ... בשם הצעיר שלמה בכמ"ר שמואל מנורצו ז"ל עם האותיות שהיו מהסופר כמר מאיר ואחריו מנכדו כמ"ר אפרים מפאדובה ז"ל (נדפס על ידי משה בכמ"ר כתריאל ווייש וושר ז"ל מחקק דק"ק פראג).

על-פי ויניצייא שכ"ה, עם הקדמת ר' אברהם עלון. בטפסים שבספרית הבודליאנה באוקספורד (שטיינשניידר, CB, עמ' 1098, מס' 3,5326) ובפטרסבורג (וינר, קהלת משה, עמ' 309, מס' 2523): "נדפס ... בשם האחים יצחק ושלמה בני ר' שמואל מנורצו".

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0200841; EJ; JE
        
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Listing Classification
Period
16th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Talmud
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica