Tanya Rabbati



Tanya Rabbati is an anonymous work on Jewish law first published in Italy, in 1514 CE.
Tanya Rabbati discusses Shabbat and the Jewish Holidays. The work is named for its first word, "Tanya", which is Aramaic for "it is stated in a baraita." It is believed to have been authored by Jehiel ben Jekutheil Anav, a 13th-century Rabbinic author, manuscript copyist, and liturgical poet. The work was first published in Mantua, and was re-printed in Cremona, 1565, and later in two other editions.

Relationship to ''Shibbolei ha-Leket''

Shibbolei ha-Leket, the first Italian Jewish codification of Jewish law, is an earlier work that is similar in scope and content, but more detailed and further elaborated. Shibbolei ha-Leket is concerned with the liturgy, the Passover Haggadah, and laws pertaining to Shabbat and the Jewish Holidays. It was authored by Zedekiah ben Abraham Anav, a 13th-century Italian Talmudist. The work was culled from many Rishonim. Anav "systematized his material skilfully, gave it a concise as well as popular form, and judiciously discriminated between conflicting opinions and decisions, giving preference to those that seemed to him true." It is divided into 372 paragraphs, plus appendices and responsa on topics such as circumcision, mourning, tzitzit, slaughtering, inheritance, and interest. An abridged version was published in Venice in 1545, and a complete version in Vilna in 1886.

Viewpoints re authorship of the ''Shibolei HaLeKet'' / Tanya Rabbati

However, other views exist.
There is a hand-written notation below this, on the Wikimedia-uploaded copy, of: Rav Yechiel ben HaRav Yekusiel ben HaRav Binyomin, who authored the work Maalos HaMiddos. There is a further notation re Italy.