Binding: 17th century English sprinkled calf over pasteboards; with blind-tooling; double panels and fleurons; sewn onto five supports, with raised bands; blind-tooling on spine; spine title in gilt.Full catalogue description in SOLOContents note: Some annotations in pencil, perhaps written by Edward Pococke.Decoration: Title page printed within a decorated border.Dimensions: 336mm (height) × 252mm (width) × 39mm (depth).Layout: Text printed in double columns. Hebrew types resembling square and semi-cursive scripts.Encyclopedia of the Aggada in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. First edition of Moses Pigo’s (d. in Adrianople 1576) scholarly compendium that deals with non-legalistic exegetical texts in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash. These rabbinic texts, known as Aggadah, include folklore, historical anecdotes, moral exhortations, and practical advice that extends from business to medicine.