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Lot #    6229
Auction End Date    12/16/2003 12:54:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Yad Haruzim with accompanying copy
Title (Hebrew)    יד חרוזים
Author    [Ms.] Gershom ben Moses Hefez (Gentili)
City    Austria or Germany?
Publication Date    18th cent.
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [9], 50, 24 ff., 170:105 mm., ink on paper, neat Ashkenazi script, light browning, trimmed, bound in modern cloth boards. A verbetem copy of the Venice 1740 second edition, provided with:

Venice 1740, second edition, [1], 71 ff., octavo, 175:120 mm., light age staining, bound in contemporary boards, rubbed and split.

          
Detailed
Description		    Hebrew rhyme-lexicon by Gershom ben Moses Hefez (Gentili). The first paragraph of the title page informs, in rhymed sentences, the subject matter of the book. The final paragraph notes that this edition was brought to press by Meir da Zara, who added considerable material omitted from the first edition and that the editor was Simhah Calimani. There is an introduction from Gershom in which he discusses the 12 rules for Hebrew usage in poetry and rhyme scheme. The text of Yad Haruzim, in two columns, is comprised of examples organized by letter and vowels.

Yad Haruzim is accompanied by a manuscript copy of this edition written in a vowelled Hebrew script in a fine hand. On the bottom of the manuscript title page is a previous owner’s stamp, that of Shaindle and Yehuda Elberg. The printed and manuscript copies together make for an unusual an interesting set.

Gershom ben Moses Hefez (Gentili, 1683–1700) died an untimely death at the age of 17. At the time of his death Gershom was already recognized as a scholar of considerable accomplishment and his work was widely praised. Yad Haruzim was published by his father, R. Moses ben Gershom (1663–1711), who was a pupil of R. Solomon ben Isaac Nizza and the author of Hanukkat ha-Bayit (Venice, 1696) and Melekhet Mahashevet (Venice, 1710).

          
Paragraph 2    ... ועתה הביאו לדפוס שנית כמה"ר מאיר דא זארא, ונתוספו בו דברים רבים שנשמטו בחרוזים ממעלת המחבר ז"ל ומקום הניח להתגדר בו למעלת המגיה... שמחה קאלימאני .
          
Reference
Description		    EJ; Ghirondi Neppi p. 70; Vinograd, Venice 1784
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Other:    Book
  
Kind of Judaica