Masechta Rosh Hashanah * WITH: Masechta Makoth. Together two volumes. Both with commentary by Rashi and Tosaphoth, second with Piskei Tosaphoth

AUCTION 8 | Tuesday, November 16th, 1999 at 1:00

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(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)

Masechta Rosh Hashanah * WITH: Masechta Makoth. Together two volumes. Both with commentary by Rashi and Tosaphoth, second with Piskei Tosaphoth

Tractate titles in large I: ff.35. Lightly browned and stained, isolated worming on last few leaves causing loss of a few letters. II: ff.24. Lightly browned and stained, scattered worming on a few leaves taped. Modern morocco. Sm.folio Vinograd, Halle 14 & 22; Vinograd, Amsterdam 579; Fuks, Amsterdam 507

Amsterdam (i.e. Halle): Moses ben Abraham 1712 & 1715

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $600

Biographers are in disagreement as to whether Tractate Makoth was printed in Amsterdam in 1690 or is a pseudo-Amsterdam imprint actually printed in Halle in 1714. For a careful presentation of the evidence suggesting that Makoth was printed in Amsterdam, see M. J. Heller, Printing The Talmud: A History of the Individual Treatises Printed from 1700 to 1750 (1999) pp.63-4. Indeed, the title page of Rosh Hashanah states that it was printed by Moses Ben Abraham “meh,” “from,” Amsterdam, whereas the title page of Makoth states that it was printed “beh,” “in,”Amsterdam (ibid. p. 68