Physical Description:

Volume 2 of 2 only. [1 of 2], 3-162 of 164 ff., folio, 355:230 mm., usual light age and damp staining, nice margins, lacking second title, final 2 ff, ff.158-162 stained and torn with loss, not bound. Mahtzis haShekel not appended.

Detailed Description:   

Part II of II of Shulhan Arukh Orah Hayyim with many commentaries.

In 1847 the Shapira printing press was established by the three brothers Hanina Lipa, Aryeh Leib, and Joshua Heschel Shapira, sons of Samuel Abraham Abba Shapira, the printer in Slavuta. Until 1862 this was one of the only two Hebrew presses the Russian government permitted to operate in the whole of Russia, the other being in Vilna. This press had 18 hand presses and four additional large presses. In 1851 Aryeh Leib broke away and established his own printing press in Zhitomir. In these two establishments only sacred books of every kind were printed. During the years 1858–64 the press of the two brothers printed a beautiful edition of the Babylonian Talmud together with the Halakhot of Isaac Alfasi, while between 1860 and 1867 Aryeh Leib printed an edition of the Jerusalem Talmud.

Hebrew Description:

[שולחן ערוך אורח חיים] ... כאשר נדפס מקדם [בווילנא תר"ו] ... וכעת הוספנו ... הספר מחצית השקל ... וחלקנו אותו לכמה חלקים והצגנו אותו אחר איזה הלכות [נדפס כספר בפני עצמו באותה שנה. עיין: קלין, שמואל בן נטע] ... חלק א-ב.

שני שערים לכל חלק.

שם הספר ומקום הדפוס בדיו אדומה

."לוח הסימנים" לחלק א נדפס בעמ’ [250].