Talmud Yerushalmi

AUCTION 9 | Tuesday, March 28th, 2000 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 333

(TALMUD, JERUSALEM).

Talmud Yerushalmi

Four parts in one. Three divisional titles. Each title within woodcut architectural border. Opening word of each part within elaborate floral woodcut border-piece ff. 65,83,66,51. Lightly browned, stained on a few leaves, marginal worming, repaired in places, opening page repaired with large portions in facsimle. Modern blind-tooled brown morocco boards. Folio Vinograd, Venice 89; Habermann, Bomberg 90; Mehlman 138; Adams T-111

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1523

Est: $10,000 - $15,000

PRICE REALIZED $10,000

First Edition Upon Which All Further Editions Are Based The text of the Yerushalmi was checked and compared to three other manuscripts. The most important of these, and in fact, the only complete manuscript extant, is the Leiden Manuscript (1289). However, Bomberg’s editor, Jacob ben Chaim ibn Adonyahu, (who later converted to Christianity), produced a work somewhat wanting, by omitting key words and phrases, choosing difficult readings and, causing confusion with incorrect “corrections.” See Y. N. Epstein, MeDikdukei Yerushalmi, in: Tarbiz, vol. V, (1934) p.257; and S. Lieberman, Studies in Palestinian Talmudic Literature (1991) pp.219-229, 236-238