Sefer Rav Alfas
Subtitle: hu ha-Rav ha-gadol ... mefarshe devaro ... ha-lo hemah Rashi, ṿe-Rabenu Yonah, ṿe-Rabenu Nisim, ṿe-nimuḳe Rabenu Yosef, ṿeha-ḥamishi ...
By: ʻalehem hosif ... Menaḥem Daṿid bar Yitsḥaḳ ... ish Ṭaḳṭin [Ṭiḳṭin]
Contributors: Mordecai ben Hillel, ha-Kohen, 1240?-1298; Menaḥem Daṿid bar Yitsḥaḳ, ish Ṭiḳṭin; Ṿaiśṿasher, Mosheh bar Katriʼel (Of Prague), compositor; Śimḥah bar Yitsḥaḳ, compositor; Yitshḥaḳ ben Aharon, me-Prosṭits, printer; Ṿaiśṿesher, Mosheh bar Katriʼel, de-ḳ.ḳ. Prag, compositor; Temple Emanuel Library of Hebrew and Rabbinical Literature
Publisher: Yitsḥaḳ Aharon me-ḳ. ḳ. Prosṭits
Published: 1597
Place of publication: Ḳraḳa
Language: heb
Number of pages: 872
Subjects: Commentaries; Early works to 1800; Jewish law; Talmud
Other titles: Rav Alfas; Rav Mordekhai.; Mordekhai.
Work titles: Hilkhot Rav Alfas
Notes: Signatures in Arabic numerals and Hebrew characters: pt. 1. 1[alef]-35[lamed-he]⁸ (25[kaf-he]₈ verso blank) 36[lamed-ṿaṿ]-37[lamed-zayin]¹⁰ (37[lamed-zayin]₁₀ verso blank) -- pt. 2 . 1[alef]-6[ṿaṿ]⁸ 7[zayin]⁶ 8[ḥet]-33[lamed-gimel]⁸ 34[lamed-dalet]⁶ -- pt. 3. 1[alef]-37[lamed-zayin]⁸ 38[lamed-ḥet]⁶ 39[lamed-ṭet]⁸ 107[kuf-zayin]-108[kuf-ḥet]¹⁰ -- pt. 4. 1[alef]-2[bet]⁴ 3[gimel]-8[ḥet]⁸ 9[ṭet]⁴ 10[yod]² 11[yod-alef]-18[yod-ḥet]⁸ 19[yod-ṭet]-20[kaf]⁶ 21[kaf-alef]-24[kaf-dalet]⁸ 25[kaf-he]⁶ 26[kaf-ṿaṿ]⁸ 27[kaf-zayin]⁶.

Foliation in Hebrew characters.

Woodcut title page border.

Title pages of pts. 1-3 identical in content and layout, with a variation in typesetting of lines 3-5 in t.p. of pt. 2 [Wolfenbüttel copy].

For detailled information on contents and edition history -- see StCB, BHB.

Contains a poem by the printer -- pt. 3.

End of printing of pt. 3: "ha-yom yom 1, 3 Tamuz bi-shenat 357 [29.6.1597].

Pt. 4 [Sefer Rav Mordekhai] is described as a separate edition by StCB and Cowley -- comp. BHB.

Rare Book copy: From the Temple Emanuel Library of Hebrew and Rabbinical Literature.

Rare Book copy: Müller No. 452.

Rare Book copy: 3 pts. in 3v.; part 4 lacking.

Rare Book copy: Vol. 1: T.p. wanting.

Rare Book copy: Vol. 1: Ms. notes indicating family birth records on verso of leaf 292; ms. note on leaf 2.

Rare Book copy: Vol. 2: Owner's mark on t.p., defaced; owner's mark on t.p., dated 1778.

Rare Book copy: Vol. 2: Two leaves from other text inserted between leaves 247-248; fragment of O.T. inserted between leaves 226-227.

Rare Book copy: Vol. 3: Owners' marks on t.p.

Bibliogr. Hebr. Book, 0120728

Wolf, J.C. Bibliotheca Hebraea, vol. 1, p. 7960, no. 1

Steinschneider, M. Cat. librorum hebraeorum, 1090, 5310/6

Steinschneider, M. Cat. librorum hebraeorum, 1661, 6227/7

Cowley, 260

Cowley, 455
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Masekhet Berakhot & Seder Moʼed [printed 357]; title: pt. 2. Seder Nashim & Masekhet Ḥulin [printed 357]; title: pt. 3. Seder Neziḳin & Yitsḥaḳ ben Reʼuven: 10 Sheʻare Shavuʼot & Hilkhot ḳetanot [colophon dated 357, printer's poem dated 358]; title: pt. 4. Mordekhai ben Hilel: Sefer Rav Mordekhai [printed 358].