Masechta Ta’anith [“Fasts”]

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

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 584

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).

Masechta Ta’anith [“Fasts”]

With commentary by Rashi and Tosaphoth. Uncensored copy ff.36 (of 40), lacking title, f.2 and final ff.2 (Piskei Tosaphoth). Stained, marginal wear, loss to head-notes of final ff.2. Modern half vellum. Folio Vinograd, Pesaro 41; Mehlman 142(ii); Rabbinovicz pp.24-5

(Pesaro: Gershom Soncino 1515)

Est: $6,000 - $8,000

PRICE REALIZED $6,000

First Edition of this Talmudic Tractate. Accompanied by a Typed Letter Signed to a former owner from the Department of Oriental Books of the Bodleian Library, Oxford: “...The Bodleian Library does not hold copy of the Pesaro...edition of Ta’anit. Strangely enough, I have not traced a copy in any of the published catalogues of the Libraries which hold significant stocks of Hebraica. Your copy, even though lacking the title-page, is therefore of some rarity.”