Figo (Picho), Azariah (Efraim) & Samuel Sardi

[Hebrew Title] Gedulai Termah. [Crescentia oblationis Comm. in Samuel Sardi.]

      Venice:: Vendramin,, 1643.. First Edition.. Contemp. calf, rebacked, blind tools on spine,hort tear at head speckled rred edges,booklabel,old stamps on t.p., minor dampstains at head.. Folio.. Title in architectural border. Azariah (1579-1647) Italian rabbi and preacher, at the age of 28 he was appointed rabbi of Pisa where he wrote this 'valuable' book. Its is a casuistic commentary to Samuel Sardi's 'Sepher Haterumah', the first Halachic work devoted solely to civil law. Sardi (1185/90-1255/6) was a Spanish halakhist. This work, 'the first comprehensive code in Jewish law devoted solely to civil law,' was completed about 1225. The text of Sardi occupies the center of the page with Figo's notes surrounding it. Vinograd 1255. Mehlman 858. Steinschneider 4447:2. Zedner 65. Cowley 48.