Masechta Makoth [Flagilation]. With commentary by Rashi, Tosafoth, etc

AUCTION 20 | Monday, June 02nd, 2003 at 5:00

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

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Lot 35

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)

Masechta Makoth [Flagilation]. With commentary by Rashi, Tosafoth, etc

FIRST BOMBERG EDITION ff. 28. Few light stains in places, trace worming on last few leaves. Later chestnut half-morocco marbled boards. Folio Vinograd, Venice 25; Habermann, Bomberg 24; Mehlman 144c; Rabbinovicz, Talmud pp.35-42; not in Adams

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1520

Est: $10,000 - $15,000

PRICE REALIZED $16,000

A RARE TRACTATE FROM THE EDITO PRINCEPS OF THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD. Daniel Bomberg’s editions of 1520-23 formed the edito princeps of the Babylonian Talmud setting the standard pagination and layout to which almost all subsequent editions adhered: a section of the Mishnah text followed by its Gemara, the commentary of Rashi on the inner margin and that of the Tosaphists on the outer. For a general survey, see: M. Heller, Printing the Talmud, (1992) pp. 135-154