Strack, Hermann L (Editor). Der Babylonische Talmud. Nach der Einzigen Vollständigen Handschrift München Codex Hebraicus 95 (The Munich Codex Facsimile)

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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(TALMUD).

Strack, Hermann L (Editor). Der Babylonische Talmud. Nach der Einzigen Vollständigen Handschrift München Codex Hebraicus 95 (The Munich Codex Facsimile)

Two volumes. Limited Edition of 250. Printed on Regal Paper Original linen boards, t.e.g. Expansive blind-tooled calf covers, gently rubbed. Clasps and hinges. Heavy folios

Leiden: 1912

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

Colossal fascsimile of the monumental Munich Codex, the earliest complete manuscript of the entire Babylonian Talmud. It is the only recorded manuscript of the Talmud to have survived the wide-spread destruction of books in Spain in the 15th-century and Italy in the 16th-century. Needless to say, the manuscript contains numerous and significant textual variants from the printed edition. It formed the basis of R.NN. Rabinovicz’s highly useful Dikdukei Sofrim