Manuscript of Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried, Author of Kitzur Shulchan Aruch

Manuscript of Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried, Author of Kitzur Shulchan Aruch
Autographic manuscript of Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried author of Kitzur Shulchan Aruch.
Leaf in his handwriting containing novellae on Tractate Bava Batra, Leaf 154. These novellae were not printed together with his novellae on Bava Batra which he himself printed in Zolkva in 1846, but they were integrated into the new edition published by Machon Yerushalayim.
Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried (1804-1886), a leading Torah authority in his times. Disciple of Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Heller [R. Hirshle Charif] author of Tiv Gittin [he was raised in Rabbi Heller's home after he was orphaned as a child]. Rabbi Ganzfried's first book, “Keset HaSofer”, on laws of the practice of scribal writing of books of Torah, Tefillin and Mezuzot, was published in 1834 in the city of Ofen. The book has the Chatam Sofer’s approbation and his glosses. He states there that no scribe should be ordained until he is proficient in this book. Rabbi Ganzfried served as head of theBet Din of Ungvar from 1850 until his passing in 1886. He headed the Orthodox rabbinate in Hungary.
He authored dozens of important books however he is best known for his Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, an easy summary of the Shulchan Aruch, printed in many editions since its first publishing in 1864, in Ungvar. [“Otzar Yisrael”, New York 1909, notes that half a million copies had already been published. According to Dr. Yitzchak Rivkind, a million copies had been published until 1960].
[1] leaf, written on both sides, 36 cm. Good condition. In a fine leather binding.