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BARUCH BEN DAVID. - Gedulath Mordechai [novellae on the Mordechai’s halachic output]. Appended: Agudath Ezov. FIRST EDITION. Signatures on title-page including R. Moshe Mintz of Radavyl (see Otzer HaRabanim no. 14912). ff. 116. Heavily foxed. Bound in Valmadonna-custom mahogany blind-tooled calf, spine in compartments and titled in gilt. Folio. Vinograd, Hanau 14. Hanau: Hans Jacob Henna 1615 > The contemporary author, a native of Gnessen (Gniezno, vicinity of Posen) records in the present introduction that he wrote this text after arriving in Prague and encountering there three manuscripts on the Mordechai written by three leading rabbinic scholars: The Mahara’l, R. Yitzchak Chajes (Pachad Yitzchak) and R. Eliezer Aschkenazi (Ma’aseh Hashem). He utilized all these works, to make one new composition “lacking nothing - for a three-fold cord is not quickly broken.”===See M. J. Heller, The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book, Vol. I, pp. 314-5.