Talmud Yerushalmi

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 36

(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-pieceS ff. 65,(1),83,(1),66,51,(1). Paper repairs to opening title not affecting text, marginal repairs to first eight and last five leaves, few stains in places, trace marginal worming on a few leaves. Later blind-tooled chestnut morocco, rubbed, upper cover starting. Folio Vinograd, Venice 89; Habermann, Bomberg 90; Mehlman 138; Adams T-111

Venice: Daniel Bomberg (1523)

Est: $15,000 - $20,000

PRICE REALIZED $22,000

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; S. Lieberman, Studies in Palestinian Talmudic Literature (1991) pp.219-229, 236-238, and Y. Sussman, Inroduction to the Yerushalmi based upon the Leiden MS (Jerusalem, 2002)