Talmud Yerushalmi.

Auction 94 | Thursday, June 17th, 2021 at 11:00am

Rare & Excellent Hebrew Printed Books: From the Library of Arthur A. Marx

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(TALMUD, JERUSALEM).

Talmud Yerushalmi.

Second edition, First Edition with a Commentary. Four parts in one volume. Three divisional titles. Printed in two columns with commentary occupying third column in rabbinic characters. Titles within architectural arch. ff. 65, 83, 66, 51. Lightly stained, few neat paper repairs, previous owner’s marks. Modern morocco. Folio. Vinograd, Cracow 289.

Cracow: Isaac Prostitz 1609

Est: $7,000 - $9,000

“This second edition of the Jerusalem Talmud became the standard for subsequent printings of the Yerushalmi.” See Yeshiva University Museum Catalogue, Printing the Talmud (2005) number.34. R. David Darshan was the author of the Perush Katzar to this edition, citing his name in the commentary to Tractate Nazir. Born in Cracow c. 1527 he was a disciple of Moses Isserles (the ReM”A), Solomon Luria (the MaHaRSHa”L), Isaac b. Bezalel, the brother of the MaHaRa”L of Prague, and others. See H. R. Perelmuter, Shir Ha’Ma’aloth Le’David (1984); and S. Lieberman, Ha’Yerushalmi Ki’Peshuto (1935) introduction.