Yam shel Shlomo [novellae to Tractate Chulin]

AUCTION 24 | Tuesday, June 29th, 2004 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg

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Lot 167

LURIA, SOLOMON

Yam shel Shlomo [novellae to Tractate Chulin]

Marginal note in pencil on f.19r ff. (4), 164, (1), 4-10. ff. 86-89 out of sequence. Mispaginated though apparently complete. Some pages laid to size; others supplied from other copies. Waterstained. Modern boards. Folio. Sold not subject to return Vinograd, Cracow 446

Cracow: Menachem Nachum Meisels 1646?

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

A bibliographic curiosity is the fact that the contents of “f. 120v.” have been duplicated on the facing page “141r.” except that the latter contains a line and a half missing in the former, from “shem shamayim le-vatalah” until “she’ein zo netilah kol ikar.” The explanation for this curiosity is rather obvious. Realizing the omission of these lines, the printer then proceeded to reprint the entire page supplying the missing text