She’erit Yehudah – novellae and halachic rulings by Rabbi Shmuel Taitatzak and Rabbi Yosef Taitatzak (who was one of the rabbinic leaders of his generation; the Chid”a wrote of him that he was worthy of compiling the Shulchan Aruch), published by Rabbi Yehudah Taitatzak. First and rare edition. Pedigree copy. With an approbation leaf by the sages of Salonika about the conversos who came from Portugal. In their halachic ruling, the rabbis determine that there is no concern of a female converso who was sanctified to a Jew being married, even if there were witnesses, and she is permitted to marry others. The publisher of the glorious Taitatzak family wrote the manuscript’s history in his foreword. In the copy before us, there was an attempt to blur and erase the place of print – Salonika, on the title page and also on the last leaf. The word ‘שמד’ (religious persecution) was also blurred several times. The stamp of Rabbi Nachum Dovber Friedman of Sadigura and the stamp ‘Kinyan Kaspi’ appear on the title page. His handwritten signature is on the leaf preceding the title page. There is a lengthy unidentified gloss, slightly cropped, on leaf 67. The Admo”r Rabbi Menachem Nachum Dov of Sadigura [1843-1883] owned a large library and stamped the books according to their source. In the book before us, he stamped ‘Kinyan Kaspi,’ meaning he bought the book in order to study it. With a sticker-bookplate: “Library of Rabbi Nachum Dov Friedman in Sadagura.” [Hebrew] 84 leaves, 18 cm. Quality paper. Fine condition. Aging stains. Partially detached binding.