Masechta Sotah [The Suspected Adulteress]. With commentaries by Rashi, Tosafoth, etc

AUCTION 19 | Tuesday, March 11th, 2003 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art

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Lot 177

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)

Masechta Sotah [The Suspected Adulteress]. With commentaries by Rashi, Tosafoth, etc

FIRST EDITION WITH THE COMMENTARY OF THE MAHARSHA. Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes ff. 49,(1). Few light stains in places, expert marginal repairs on first and last few leaves. Recent morocco-backed cloth. Folio Vinograd, Lublin 123; Mehlman 155:5; Rabinovitz, Talmud pp. 85-91

Lublin: Tzvi ben Abraham Klonymous Jaffe 1619

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

This third printing of the entire Talmud was begun in Lublin in 1617 and completed in 1639, with a handful of Tractates printed in Hanau. This edition enhanced those previous to it with the addition of novellae and aggadic interpretations of R. Samuel Edels, the Maharsha, who was the then Rosh Yeshivah of Lublin. His commentary has since become a standard feature in all comprehensive editions of the Talmud. There is some question regarding the identity of the printer. Rabinovitz speculates that Tzvi was the son of the famous Lublin printer Kalonymous Jaffe and that Kalonymous took on the additional name Abraham at a time of illness. See M. Heller, Printing the Talmud (1992) pp. 345-58