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MARGOLIOTH, Jacob (end of 15th century). Sefer Margaliyot or Seder Gittin ve-Chalitsah (an abridgement of the author's Yam shel Shelomo ). MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER [Central or Eastern Europe, second half 17th century] 2 o (320 x 185 mm). [2] + 35 leaves. Brown ink. Ashkenazic semi-cursive script. (Some stains, slightly cropped with loss of one heading, generally good condition.) Modern blind and gold-tooled morocco, two paper flyleaves at back and front, one additional older flyleaf at the back. CONTENTS: Fols. [1]rv: blank; [2]r: attractive multicolored architectural title-page, executed in water colors, depicting Moses and Aaron, topped by a baroque shield; [2]v: blank; 1r-35v: text. A treatise on the ceremonies of divorce and levirate by this late fifteenth-century Rabbi of Regensburg. This is one of three manuscripts used in the edition printed in Seder ha-Get , edited by Y. Satz (Jerusalem 1983), as described in the introduction, p. 11. On fol. 15v a formulary of the Get (deed of divorce) has been pasted into the manuscript: Wednesday 24 Kislev 5200, Nuremberg; David Sheftel ben Moses and Sarah bat Hayyim, witnesses: Abraham ben Terah, Mordecai ben Yair. Other formularies are found in the body of the text on fols. 17r (Augsburg 5196), 25r (Wrzburg 5209). PROVENANCE: 1. Judah Loeb Levi sent and presented the manuscript to Daniel Itzig of Berlin, as indicated on the title-page in a later cursive Ashkenazic hand. 2. Daniel Itzig (stamped). REFERENCES: Neubauer, no. 29, p. 12; Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, Jerusalem, F 4693.