Shu"t Rem"a MiPano. Venice, 1600. First Print. Copy that Previously Belonged to Rabbi Chaim Segri. Dozens of ...

Shu"t Rem"a MiPano. Venice, 1600. First Print. Copy that Previously Belonged to Rabbi Chaim Segri. Dozens of Handwritten Glosses

Sefer Teshuvot HaRema MiPano - responsa and commentary on practical halachic sugyas by the leading posek and Kabbalist of Italy, Rabbi Menachem Azaryah of Pano. The title page does not explicitly state the author's name, only noting his initials: מ"ע [-מנחם עזריה]. First edition in the author's lifetime. Zanetti Press, Venice, 1600. Stefansky, Sifrei Yessod 298. Hard-to-find sefer. Cataloged among the "Rare Books" in the National Library in Jerusalem. Magnificent copy, stunning leather binding with decorative gilt imprints and gilt title in Italian.

Personal copy of the renowned gaon and capitalist Rabbi Chaim Segri (Otzar Rabbanim 6088), author of Binyan Av, who was sent in 1666 at the head of the rabbinical mission from Italy to investigate the ways of the false messiah Shabbetai Tzvi. He was among the leading rabbis of Italy in the time of Rabbi Shlomo Algazi. He served as the first rabbi of Vercelli, Italy, and was the patriarch of the Segri rabbinic dynasty of Vercelli [as well as the patriarch of the Segri banking family]. His familiar signature appears at the top of the title page: "Chaim Segri." Dozens of glosses [approximately 140 lines] along the leaves of the sefer, some lengthy, in Judeo-Italian script, in Rabbi Chaim Segri's clear, beautiful penmanship.

Rabbi Chaim Segri's manuscripts maintain a special place in the history of Jewish manuscripts. They are considered one of the authoritative sources of understanding the phenomenon of the aforementioned false messiah, his Kabbalistic manuscripts, and his disciple, Nathan HaAzati. For example, "The manuscript by R' Chaim Segri in the Ginsburg Collection in Moscow, 517, is cited in all sefarim discussing the study of Sabbateanism. See, for example, Sfunot, (anthology 14, p. 252): "His [R' Chaim Segri's] major Sabbatean volume was divided into three: "Raza D'Uvda D'Bereishit" is Sefer HaBriah (Part I in the Ginsberg Collection, p. 120a, p. 184a); 'Sha'ar HaBriah' (in Ginsberg manuscript II) and "Zamir Aritzim Ya'aneh" (in Ginsberg manuscript I) 

Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for brief biographies of the author, Rabbi Menachem Azariah (the Rem"a) of Pano and the author of the sefer, the renowned gaon and Kabbalist, Rabbi Chaim Segri.

143 leaf. 20 cm. Light, high-quality paper.

Very fine condition. Signatures. Minimal aging stains. Slight tear without lack on leaf 141 in the index. Magnificent leather binding.