Issur VeHeter – Ferrara, 1555 – First Edition

Issur VeHeter – Ferrara, 1555 – First Edition
Issur VeHeter, by R. Yonah Ashkenazi of Regensburg. Ferrara: Abraham ibn Usque, [1555]. First edition.
Title page states that the book was authored by R. Yonah (the book was occasionally misattributed to Rabbenu Yonah Gerondi). This book, which is also known as Issur VeHeter HaAroch, was authored by R. Yonah son of R. Isserl Ashkenazi, a Torah scholar of Regensburg, and dayan in the Beit Din of R. Yisrael Bruna. R. Yonah was the disciple and mechutan of R. Yisrael Isserlein, author of Terumat HaDeshen. Issur VeHeter HaAroch became one of the primary sources of Halachic rulings on Kashrut for Ashkenazi Jews.
Usque's printer's device at center of title page.
[169] leaves. Lacking [5] leaves following title page, with preface and part of table of contents. Approx. 20 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Extensive worming to title page and other leaves, affecting text and title page border, repaired with paper and tape. Open tears to several leaves, affecting text (singeing to one leaf). Title page partially detached. Paper repairs with slight damage to text in several places. Stamps. Early binding, mostly detached, with defects.
The present copy includes the final two leaves of errata. These leaves are lacking in many copies.