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WEIL, JACOB. - (MaHaR”Y Weil). Shechitoth U’Bedikoth [laws of ritual slaughter and examination.] With commentary by Solomon Luria (the MaHaRSHa”L). Title within engraved architectural arch. Verse above title: “Offer up sacrifices of righteousness” (Psalms 4:6). Images of slaughterer’s knife on f. 4. ff. 9 (of 10), final leaf supplied in facsimile. Bound in Valmadonna-custom full calf. Housed in fitted slip-case. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 938. Venice: Di Gara 1601 Intended primarily as a practical guide for ritual slaughterers, the work therefore does not include Halachic sources. The Author simply provides final rulings in a straight-forward fashion, as well as local custom where fitting. Shechitoth U’Bedikoth was indispensable to every community rabbi and was reprinted dozens of times over the centuries becoming fully authoritative throughout the Ashkenazic world. See EJ, Vol. XVI, col. 395.