Shittah on Tractate Megillah

Florilegia of Provencal, Italian and Spanish provenance on tractate Megillah, edited for the first time from Prague manuscript 44. With source notes, comments and explanations, a comprehensive introduction and detailed indices. In the scholarly introduction, the author is identified as being one and the same as that of the famous 'Shittah Mekubbezet' on tractate Beza, which was erroneously attributed to R. Bezalel Ashkenazi. The introduction also gives an overview of the manuscript, the author and his academy, his main sources, his mentor, and the originality of his commentaries.