Novellae to Talmud Tractates Shabbath, Bava Bathra, Pesachim, Ta’anith, Eruvin, Megila, Kethuvoth, Yoma, Sukkah, Rosh-Hashana and Chullin. With some Aggadic material citing the Pnei Yehoshua, Nachlath Benyamin and Reishith Chachmah.

AUCTION 10 | Tuesday, June 27th, 2000 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 291
(ANONYMOUS).

Novellae to Talmud Tractates Shabbath, Bava Bathra, Pesachim, Ta’anith, Eruvin, Megila, Kethuvoth, Yoma, Sukkah, Rosh-Hashana and Chullin. With some Aggadic material citing the Pnei Yehoshua, Nachlath Benyamin and Reishith Chachmah.

Hebrew manuscript in cursive Aschkenazi script. Brown ink on paper. ff. (180). Lightly damp-wrinkled. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, rubbed. 4to

n.p.: 1789

Est: $700 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $900
Although no record of authorship can be determined from this manuscript, the spine-label states “Mechami Zekeini” (From My Wife’s Grandfather). The author was obviously prodigious, the present work is entitled “Volume III,” and there is a reference on f.3r, “See Volume IV.”