Novellae to Talmud tractates Baba Metzia and Shavu’oth.

AUCTION 76 | Thursday, June 14th, 2018 at 3:00 PM

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 306

(CAIRO GENIZA)

Novellae to Talmud tractates Baba Metzia and Shavu’oth.

Bifolium, comprising four pages each written in two columns in a fine cursive Hebrew script in a Spanish hand, brown ink on vellum. Two lines in Latin on upper margin of fourth page (used as a binding); later marginal descriptive inscriptions in Italian and some Hebrew on first page; second page with Julius Bisno ownership label. Few tiny holes, folds. Tall folio.

(Spain?): (14th century)

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

For provenance details, see previous lot. Text concerns the admission or denial of monetary claims and the obligation whether to to swear or not as discussed in the first chapter of Baba Metzia (Shenayim Ochazin) ff. 4-5 and the sixth chapter of Shavu’oth (Shevuath Hadayanin) ff. 38-40. Includes the Halachic differences between land and movable objects plus related topics. <<Contains much erudition on the topics discussed. >>