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MORDECHAI BEN HILLEL ASCHKENAZI) - Kitzur Mordechai V’Simanav [abridgment of Sepher Mordechai]. Prepared by Joshua Boaz Baruch. FIRST EDITION. ff. (2), 56. Stained. Bound in Valmadonna-custom chestnut calf, blind-tooled with gilt florets at corners. Folio. Vinograd, Cremona 12. Cremona: Vicenzo Conti 1557 R. Mordechai ben Hillel Hakohen (1240? -1298) was the outstanding disciple of R. Meir (MaHaRa’M) of Rothenburg. His compendium, arranged according to the Tractates of the Talmud, is a rich repository of the halachic traditions of Aschkenaz. See A. Siev, Hagahot HaRama al HaMordechai in: Hagut Ivrit Be’Amerika, Vol. I (1972) pp. 426-39; A. Halperin, Sepher HaMordechai BeRe’i Hadpasotav in: Iyunim BeSifrut Chazal… Melamed Festschrift (1982) pp. 323-38; EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 311-14.