Yad Malachi. First Print. Pedigree Copy. Dedication, Signatures and Glosses

Yad Malachi. First Print. Pedigree Copy. Dedication, Signatures and Glosses

Yad Malachi, rules of gemara, poskim and laws [כללי הדינים] by the great Rabbi Malachi HaKohen of Livorno. Fundamental book. First edition. Livorno, 1767. Copy with exceptional 'lineage.' Many dozens of glosses, some lengthy.

The title page bears a handwritten dedication from Chacham Menachem Yosef Chai Ze'evi to Rabbi Avraham Yehudah Pizanti. Another owner's notation on the title page: 'I bought this book from the lofty sage Rabbi Avraham Yeuda Pizanti ... the youth Yosef Eliyah HaLevi, S"T.' In the margins of the sheets, there are glosses handwritten by him, some signed: יה"ל or יא"ה with ס"ט. From the gloss on page 159a, it appears that the author of Kol Ben Levi was his uncle.

Chacham Menachem Chai Yosef Ze'evi was one of the leading rabbis of Hebron (1830), among the sages of the renowned Ze'evi family. He signed on Rabbi Avraham Yisrael's emissary letter in 1782. He set out on a mission to Morocco for Hebron. His son Rabbi Rephael Yitzchak Azariah also served as an emissary of Hebron in Morocco.

Rabbi Avraham Yehudah Pizanti, recipient of the book, was apparently mentioned in Sefer Takanot (Jerusalem, 1883) page 48b.

Rabbi Yosef Eliyah HaLevi was apparently Rabbi Yosef Eliyah HaLevi, emissary of Hebron in Turkey and the Balkan countries 1750-1751. He printed his books Yad Ramah and Shirei Shitah Mekubetzet L'Bava Batra in Salonika, with approbations by the Mahari"t Algazi and Rabbi David Pardo, who wrote about him with great respect.

228 leaves, 21 cm. Complete, including the three title pages.

Moderate condition: Worming damage. Wear in the margins of the first and last leaves, without damage to text. Simple binding.