Perush ha-Get (Treatise Concerning the Bill of Divorce) Samson ben Isaac of Chinon, Constantinople: [1515]

12 leaves (7 7/8 x 5 5/8 in.; 200 x 142 mm). Washed, light dampstain in outer portion. Bookplate tipped in to front endpaper, inscriptions and library stamp on first and last pages, censors' inscriptions (Laurentius Franguellus 157[?] Camillo Jagel, 1611) on last page. Cream cloth; bottom edges torn.

Solomon Dubnow- his name on first leaf; Reshit Hokhmah- their stamp on first and last leaves and tipped in bookplate

Vinograd, Constantinople 68; Yaari, Constantinople 82; Mehlman 796

12 leaves (7 7/8 x 5 5/8 in.; 200 x 142 mm). Washed, light dampstain in outer portion. Bookplate tipped in to front endpaper, inscriptions and library stamp on first and last pages, censors' inscriptions (Laurentius Franguellus 157[?] Camillo Jagel, 1611) on last page. Cream cloth; bottom edges torn.
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Samson ben Isaac of Chinon (c.1260–c.1330), the author of this small treatise on divorce was one of the last of the French tosafists. His major work on talmudic methodology, Sefer Keritut incorporates, the whole of the methodological material embodied in the tosafot literature. He was a contemporary of Perez Kohen Gerondi, who, as reported by Isaac ben Sheshet, declared Samson to be the "greatest rabbi of his generation." Perush ha-Get is among his lesser known works. In it, the author seeks to clarify confusing language and explain difficult concepts in the bills of divorce in use in his day. In addition to the initial section concerning the actual bill of divorce (get) , there is also a section on the requirements for serving the bill of divorce and one concerning halizah, the biblically ordained ritual that obviates the necessity for levirate marriage.