Twenty Basle Tractates. With commentaries: Rashi, Tosafoth, Piskei Tosafoth, R. Asher, & Maimonides on Mishnah.
AUCTION 79 |
Thursday, November 15th,
2018 at 1:00 PM
The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 125
(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).
Twenty Basle Tractates. With commentaries: Rashi, Tosafoth, Piskei Tosafoth, R. Asher, & Maimonides on Mishnah.
Basle: Ambrosius Froben 1578-80
Est: $15,000 - $20,000
PRICE REALIZED $17,000
Following the wanton destruction in Italy of vast numbers of Hebrew texts - especially those of the Talmud - the Basle humanist-printer Ambrosius Froben (grandson of Johannes Froben) was moved to issue a new edition of the Talmud to compensate for the losses experienced by the learned Jews of Italy. Due to Church-related censorship matters, not all Tractates were issued and so the set remained incomplete.
See R. N. N. Rabinowitz, Ma’amar al Hadpassath HaTalmud pp. 74-79; and M. J. Heller, Printing the Talmud (1992) pp. 241-65.
<<* ACCOMPANIED BY:>> Mishnah. Seder Kodshim. ff. 47. [Vinograd, Basle 120]. Basle, 1578. <<* AND:>> Mishnah. Seder Moed. ff. 53. With stamp of Moses Gaster. [Vinograd, Basle 137]. Basle, 1579.