She’erith Yoseph [on the methodology of the Talmud]

AUCTION 7 | Tuesday, June 22nd, 1999 at 1:00

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Lot 441

JOSEPH IBN VERGA.

She’erith Yoseph [on the methodology of the Talmud]

Second edition ff.44. Dampstained, trace wormed. Later stained vellum, rubbed. Sm.4to Vinograd, Mantua 186; not in Adams

Mantua: Moses Elishama Zifroni for Tommaso Ruffinelli 1593

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $350

Although Mantua was comparatively liberal in its treatments of resident Jews, Hebrew printers were obliged to undertake their work at the presses of Christian printers who had secured a monopoly of the right to issue Hebrew books. See Amram, pp. 324-5 and 333