Vilnius, Finn Rosenkranz and Shriftzertz, 1880
Summary of the 'halakhot' of the first two parts of Joseph Caro's Shulchan Aruch.
Rabbi Joseph ben David Prado (d. 1677) was hazan of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation in London. The work was edited by his son Rabbi David Prado and first printed in Amsterdam in 1686. In 1689 R. David Prado published his Spanish translation of the work, titled 'Compendio de Dinim'.
16mo (11 x 7.5 cm), wide margins, light age staining; publisher's half-morocco boards, extremely rubbed, one leaf mostly missing (pp. 101-102), a few stamps and signatures of previous owners throughout the book; text in Hebrew; 192 pp.
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