Glosses by Rabbi Chaim Berlin and More: Sefer Shut HaRadbaz Section I - Basic Book First Edition Venice, 1749

Glosses by Rabbi Chaim Berlin and More: Sefer Shut HaRadbaz Section I - Basic Book First Edition Venice, 1749

Sefer Shut by Rabbi David ben Zimar (the Radbaz), section I - an interesting variant on whose title page "section I" was not noted as in other copies. With the Tshuvot Leleshonot HaRambam. Venice, 1749. Stefansky Sifrei Yesod 281. [2], 129 leaves. Moth perforations and some damage. Detached leaves. Stains and varied blemishes. Worn, blemished leather binding matching the time of printing. Good overall condition. 

On verso of the binding, lengthy notations in Sephardic script and on the title page, a Sephardic signature: "אבר"ך" - has not been examined. Handwritten glosses throughout the book, some of them handwritten by Rabbi Chaim Berlin (his stamps were erased or cut all the way through). 

On the title page, ownership signatures: "אהרן ב"ר מאיר ז"ל רב אטשאקוב". Possibly, some of the glosses are his - the Chassid Gaon Rabbi Aharon Akerman Av Beit Din of Otoshkov, Ukraine, one of the leading Chassidim of the Saba Kadisha of Ruzhin and his son the Admor Rabbi Avraham Yaakov of Sadigure. In his old age, immigrated to the Holy Land and served as Rosh Av Beit Din of the Chassidic community of Jerusalem. 

This book was published by Rabbi David Ashkenazi, the Shadar for Jerusalem to Italy, son of the author of Eshel Avraham, author of a commentary on the Zohar. He published it from a manuscript of the Radbaz that had previously been hidden. The publisher received approbations from the leading rabbis of Jerusalem, Venice and Livorno, with a license from the rabbis of Venice. Rabbi David ben Zimra – the Radbaz (1479-1575), Rav of Safed, Rav of the Ari and of Rabbi Bezalel Ashkenazi author of the Shita Mekubetzet.