Terumat HaDeshen - First Edition - Venice, 1519 - Handwritten Glosses and Supplements - Signatures of Rabbi Shmuel ...

Terumat HaDeshen - First Edition - Venice, 1519 - Handwritten Glosses and Supplements - Signatures of Rabbi Shmuel Heller
Terumat HaDeshen, responsa, by R. Israel Isserlin. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, [1519]. First edition.
The sheets of the book have close to one hundred glosses by various writers, most of them by two writers in ancient Ashkenazi-Italian script [ca. 16th-17th centuries]. The ancient glosses contain references and scholarly notes (which open with the words: "From here it seems…", "From here is proof…", "Implied from here…"). Several glosses in the handwriting of R. Shmuel Heller Rabbi of Safed, and glosses and references by more writers.
Several censorship erasures. Four leaves are lacking, from Siman 17 until the middle of Siman 35, and were replaced by hand (the handwriting resembles the typography of the book).
Many signatures of R. "Shmuel Heller". Signatures and additional ownership inscriptions: R. "David Yerucham". Ownership inscription: "This book belongs to the young man outstanding in Torah knowledge and fear of Heaven, son of the holy R. Yitzchak Isaac Deutsch son of the Rabbi of Kretshnif", and stamp of "Yitzchak Isaac Deutsch of Tiberias" [died in Tishrei 1908. Brother of R. Moshe Deutsch, son-in-law of the son of R. Shmuel Heller].
R. Shmuel Heller (1786-1884), Torah scholar and physician, was raised in the home of the Chozeh of Lublin and following his advice, immigrated to Eretz Israel. Served as Rabbi of Safed for sixty years (for his biography and the history of settlement in Safed see "HaRav HaManhig V'Harofeh - Safed, 1989).
R. David Yerucham, one of the heads of Kollel Perushim of the Vilna Gaon's disciples in Safed. His signature appears on an emissary letter from 1828, together with the signatures of R. Yisrael of Shklow and of R. Chaim Cohen Rabbi of Pinsk (see enclosed material).
[12] leaves; [4] leaves replaced in handwriting; [116] leaves (originally: [132] leaves). 24.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Mildew stains to first leaves. Minor worming to margins, not affecting text. Many glosses are in faded brown ink. Old binding with leather spine.