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Ẓuf Devash, R. David b. Solomon Altaras, Venice 1714
שפר צו"ף דב"ש - Only Edition
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- Lot Number 54405
- Title (English) Ẓuf Devash
- Title (Hebrew) שפר צו"ף דב"ש
- Note Kabbalah – Liturgy
- Author R. David b. Solomon Altaras
- City Venice
- Publisher [דפוס בראגאדין?]
- Publication Date 1714
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- Item # 2607337
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Description
Physical Description
Only edition, 32 ff., 16mo., 114:80 mm., light age and use staining, small hole in initial few ff. A good copy bound in contemporary marbled paper wrappers.
Detail Description
The last will and testament and an elegy of R. David b. Solomon Altaras (d.1714?), known as Devash ("honey"), an acronym of his name. He lived in Venice between 1675 and 1714. He wrote Kelalei ha-Dikduk ("Principles of Grammar") which was printed at the beginning of the Venice edition of the Mikra'ot Gedolot (1675–78). From 1675 he printed Hebrew books, including a prayer book (1696) and the Mishnah with annotations (1756–60). His signature appears on a variety of halakhic rulings along with those of other rabbis of Venice, and he gave approbations to various books. His last will and testament and an elegy on his death appear in Ẓuf Devash (Venice, 1714). In an addendum to his testament "Devash" he emphasizes "that one must conspire craftily and with cunning in order to fear G-d and observe his commandments." The al-Tarās family probably came to Spain in the 8th-century, the family progenitor Hasdai al-Tarās was born around 1000 in Castile. He is the grandfather of Sidi ibn Ibrahim al-Taras and third great grandfather of Azriel ibn Menahem al-Taras, whose son Todros ibn Azriel al-Tarās, founded the Taroç family of Catalonia. The Italian branch of the family became prominent printers with Solomon Altaras supervising the publication of a Sephardi prayer book which appeared in Venice in 1685. David's son, Solomon Altaras II published books in Venice during the 18th century, among them a prayer book containing the minhag ("custom") of Corfu, entitled Leket ha-Omer (1718).
Hebrew Description
דף ה, ב - יב, א: צוואות [הוראות בענ’ין ההתנהג בשעת מיתה וקבורה, מיום יז שבט תנ"א, והשלמהת עד שנת תנ"ה].
דף יב, ב - יח, א: הערות [דברי מוסר ואזהרות בענייני איסור והיתר לתלמידיו].
דף יט-לב: ואלו דברי דוד אחרונים [קינות ושירים מאת תלמידיו].
דף יח, ב: תן חלק לשבעה היושבים על משמרתם שוקדים בלמודם ... לקרבה אל המלאכה ... להדפי את ספר הזכרונות אשר כתב ... רבינו ... דב"ש אלטאראס ... כה דברי המדברים ... ח"י לחדש ניסן שנת דע"ת. מ’שה וא’ה’ר’ן’ ש’ל’מ’י’"ם’ בכהנ’יו וש’מ’ו’א’ל’ בק’ורא’י ש’מו א’ח’ים ק’וראים אל ה’ והוא יענם.
לפי דף יא נפטר המחבר ביום יג ניסן תע"ד.
References
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/altaras; Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000110146