It is commonly accepted that Hilkhot Sheḥiṭa u-Vdika (literally, ‘The Laws of Ritual Slaughter and Examination’—Constantinople ca. 1510) was the first publication ever printed in Judeo-Spanish. Yet scholars possessed no evidence that the work actually existed, and no information was available regarding its contents or language. Recently, however, the first four pages of the publication were discovered among the remnants of the Cairo Genizah. The current study is a preliminary description of this publication’s historical bibliography, halakhic sources, structure and contents, orthography and spelling (which reflect untrained writing and inconsistent pronunciation), and its special vocabulary, including the Hebrew component, which specifically relates to religion.

人们普遍认为，希尔科特·谢赫·阿·维迪卡（字面意思是“礼节性屠杀和考试法” —约1510年君士坦丁堡）是有史以来第一个在西班牙犹太人出版社出版的出版物。然而，学者们没有证据表明该作品确实存在，也没有关于其内容或语言的信息。但是，最近在开罗吉尼扎（Cairo Genizah）的残余物中发现了该出版物的前四页。本研究是对该出版物的历史参考书目，halakhic来源，结构和内容，正字法和拼写（反映未经训练的写作和不一致的发音）以及其特殊词汇（包括与宗教有关的希伯来语成分）的初步描述。