Prof Cecil Roth (2 results)

Condition: Good. 1965. 2nd Edition. 75 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over Beige marbled boards with a blue cloth spine. Contains both monochrome and colour photos and illustrations. Book reads right to left. Printed in English and Hebrew. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Considerable loss to jacket edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. In Hebrew, with a second title page in English and a short Preface in English. 23 x 16 cm. 42, 167, VI pages. Original half brown cloth over pink cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Hebrew and English title-pages. Scholarly edition of the work of the 13th century English Tosafist Rabbi Elijah of London. Includes a lengthy biographical introduction by Cecil Roth. Includes b/w photographs of a lineage document for R. Elijah of London and the seal of his brother Rabbi Jacob of Oxford. This volume contains his extant writings: I. Halakhic Decisions relating to the first Order of the Mishnah (Zeraim); II. Commentary on the Mishnah of Tractate Brakhot; III. Collection of Scattered Explanatory Notes to the first Order of the Mishnah (Zeraim); IV. Collection of scattered Response and Decisions; V. Commentary on the Haggadah for Passover Eve. This work is an example of English Jewry's cultural productivity before it was expelled in 1290. Text in Hebrew with a short preface by Cecil Roth.