Masechta Zevachim [sacrifices].

AUCTION 83 | Thursday, June 20th, 2019 at 1:00pm

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Lot 102

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).

Masechta Zevachim [sacrifices].

With commentary by Rashi, Tosafoth, Piskei Tosafoth, etc. ff. 118 (of 121), title-page supplied in facsimile set on older paper, final two leaves also supplied in facsimile. Various expert paper repairs, stained in places with some loss. Modern gilt-tooled morocco; housed in slip-case. Tall folio. Vinograd, Venice 391.

Venice: Marco Antonio Giustiniani 1550

Est: $6,000 - $8,000

Tractate from a scarce edition that was almost entirely destroyed pursuant to the Bull of Pope Paul IV which ordered the Talmud and related literature to be consigned to flames. See M.J. Heller, The Printing of the Talmud (1992) pp. 217-28.