Halichoth Olam [Talmudic methodology and commentary to the Thirteen Divine Attributes of Mercy]. Introduction to the Talmud by Samuel HaNagid on ff. 38-9

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Important Hebrew Printed Books from the Library of the Late Salman Schocken (1877-1959)

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HALEVI, JOSHUA BEN JOSEPH.

Halichoth Olam [Talmudic methodology and commentary to the Thirteen Divine Attributes of Mercy]. Introduction to the Talmud by Samuel HaNagid on ff. 38-9

Second edition. Title within ornate historiated white-on-black woodcut border. Scattered marginalia in an early 16th-century hand ff. (40). Stained in places, neat marginal repairs to a few leaves, opening ff.8 and ff.27-40 supplied from a shorter copy, signed by censor dated 1589 on verso of final leaf. Recent vellum. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Const. 20; Yaari, Const. 9; Mehlman 744; not in Adams

Constantinople: Judah ben Joseph Bulat 1510

Est: $8,000 - $10,000

PRICE REALIZED $12,000

In an afterword on the final leaf (excluded in later editions) the printer (author of Kelal Katzer) extols the virtues of this work He states “it will guide the student upon the proper path and rescue him from the opinions of haughty imbeciles who loudly proclaim their mistaken notions whilst seeking power and authority.” In this second edition (the first was published in Leiria, 1490), the editor states he used earlier manuscripts to correct the voluminous errors contained in the first edition “which had cast the honor of this work to the ground”.